Biedermeier: his identity, both mistaken and true

Otto Biedermeier, the Hollywood icon and B-movie legend, was murdered by his wife, Mysterious Circumstances. Tom Lenz, a film historian and the director's biographer, wants to update his 20-year-old monograph as well as to pay his respects.After meeting again with Ms. Circumstances, a former circus performer whose specialty of magic tricks on the high wire had made her briefly famous before capturing the heart of the filmmaker, Tom Lenz has his doubts.Once, I had asked,"Why? Does it matter?...