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Old 01-04-2004, 11:35 AM
JimmyScoops
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To add some more gasoline to this smoldering fire, I can say that I am pretty knowledgeable of Ed Gein, having read a couple of books about the guy. Here is a direct quote from one of them. Items in parenthesis were added by me.

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Since the movie's (TCM) release, it's been an assumed wisdom that the Wisconsin woman-skinner was their main inspiration, especially as the publicity material purported the basic story to be true. Henkel (who co-wrote TCM with Hooper), however, has thrown doubt on this; he claims Hooper and he had never heard of our man Eddie til after the movie's release, the unsavory details that seem drawn from his life being some kind of Jungian coincidence...Director Hooper, for his part, claims primary inspiration from a group of his fellow Texans flocking around the chain-saw section in a department store.
from "Ed Gein: Psycho" by Paul Anthony Woods, 1995, St. Martin's Press, New York.
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