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Posted by Rob Doorack (R) on December 21, 2004 at 09:06:23

Director Larry Buchanan, director of such legendary films as "Mars Needs Women" and "Zontar, Thing From Venus", died on December 2 at age 81. Buchanan may have been the least talented director in history; his work makes Ed Wood look like Stanley Kubrick. As his obituary in the New York Times put it:

One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H.L. Mencken, who, describing President Harding's prose, said, "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it."

• Larry Buchanan's Obituary from the NY Times   (Open in New Window)