Ed Wood, Jr.'s Hollywood Rat Race has never seen the light of day until now. Wood tapped out each word on a battered old typewriter, in the dingy light of a dive on Hollywood Boulevard, pouring his heart and soul into this primer on the movie biz. Part how-to manual, part memoir, Rat Race is entirely unbridled, unfettered Ed Wood.<BR>Given that Wood liked to doll himself up in angora sweaters and high heels, his perceptions, from the politics of the casting couch to the practices of the acting craft, are fascinating. Wood's movies are masterpieces of shoestring panache, his pulp novels hot-rod vehicles of camp. Rat Race is his single attempt to have a heart-to-heart with the boys and girls of America - and acclimate them to a Tinseltown of myth, magic, and misanthropy.