On a side note - The previous house I lived in a couple of years ago in NoHo for 20 years was occupied by Ed Wood
in the late '50's and Bela used to hang out there with Ed. A couple years after I first moved into the house,
one morning I came out to the front porch for a smoke
and a A&E Channel van (A&E in huge slanted bold lettering across the side of the van) was across the street (I had no facing neighbors) with 2 guys filming the front of my house
and one of the guys (had a A&E plastic name badge hanging off a chain on his chest) along with his kid made their way over to me and told me they were filming my house for an A&E Biography
on Ed Wood and told me that Ed lived here and Bela had frequented the house. He asked me if there was a still a pool
and a back house in the backyard. I told him yes, and he said the back house was most likely a shooting gallery (meaning
Bela and his heroin) and asked if they could film out back to which I agreed so the set up their cameras out back all the
way to the very back of the yard with cameras facing the back of the front house and yard to film. I asked the one guy if he can
send me a VHS copy of the Ed Wood biography when all was said and done. He never sent it to me. Oh, well.
Nevertheless, from then on I always tripped on the fact that Ed Wood used to live in the house I was living in and Bela would hang out
there with Ed as well. Over the many years I was living there, I had a few trippy (scary?) things happen at my pad (inside and out) and always wondered if they had anything to do with Bela lol.