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Downstairs, the butler Lurch sends off the children, Wednesday and Pugsley, with their living, squirming lunches. Gomez and Morticia watch as the bus departs, with Pugsley demonstrating his special manner of going to school. 3.

Tully's last remaining account, he wheedles every bit of money he can from them. ..but he also has to put up with Gomez's enthusiasm for duelling with his guests.

Morticia presents Margaret with an item for an upcoming charity auction: an ancient Chinese finger trap, which Margaret quickly becomes stuck in. Morticia entreats Margaret to attend that night's annual seance to contact Fester's spirit, as

Gomez has been especially upset lately, to the point of coughing up blood. "He coughs up blood?" a shocked Margaret asks. "Well. ..not like he used to," replies Morticia. That afternoon, Tully has a own: Abigail Craven, a rich and conniving woman to whom he owes large sums of money. With her is her imposing, brutish visitor of his

son Gordon,

who makes

violently clear to Tully that his

mother expects payment soon. But as Gordon looms over him, Tully has a revelation: the man is the spitting image of a grown-up Fester, and when Tully tells

the Cravens of the vast wealth in the Addams family vault, the three begin to scheme...

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believe it at first and then Gomez sweeps his long-lost brother up in a triumphant embrace. Then Abigail steps forward, posing as Dr. Pinder-Schloss, claiming that Fester was found tangled in a tuna net in Miami. Fester himself claims that he can only stay a week, to the disappointment of his family except Wednesday, who is immediately skeptical of this newcomer to the home.

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Morticia

shows

Fester to

room, and he gets nervous when she opens his his old

suitcase and discovers the burglary tools inside. But she only chides him, "A crowbar,

dynamite. ..Fester. As if we'd run out." After she departs. Fester prowls around the house, plotting his theft of the Addamses' riches. But an encounter with the suspicious Wednesday unnerves him, as does a visit from Thing when he tries to sleep.

S, At breakfast the next morning. Fester is put off by Granny's unusual cuisine, especially when she advises him to "start with the eyes." Anxious to ingratiate himself into the family, he starts to drop references to his

childhood, and then announces that he'd like to spend the day wandering the house, reliving old memories. "No, no, no," retorts Gomez.

"Today we're going straight to the vault."

Gomez shows

Fester the

key to entering the secret chamber: removing a copy of Greed from a bookcase. The two waik down a back staircase and into a room where hundreds of chains hang from the ceiiing. Puliing

one, Gomez sends himseif and Fester shooting down a long, winding slide that

deposits

them by an

underground

river; sailing

down

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upset that the

room doesn't contain the riches he expected. As Gomez digs through a box for something. Fester grabs a bottle off the bar shelf to have a drink and the bar suddenly spins around, giving Fester a glimpse of the incredible treasure room behind it. Before he can react, and before Gomez can notice he's gone, the bar spins back around to its original place.

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Iln Gomez comes up from the box with an armful of old home movies, which he

shows to Fester. The films show the two as youngsters, sneaking into a crowded swimming pool wearing shark fins, burying people (all the way) in the sand, and so on. The footage then cuts to a pair of beautiful twins. Flora and Fauna, and it comes out that a rivalry over them led Fester to leave home all those years before.

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13,

The next day, the

Addamses attend the

auction,

which the finger trap (which Margaret has gotten herseif

stuck in again) is one of the featured items. To the consternation of Margaret and

Judge Womack, Gomez and Morticia conduct a bidding

war over

it,

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the

name

contributing to charity.

On the ride home. Fester the finger trap, and immediately gets stuck. Morticia has to show him how 13

tries

to free himself, raising

Gomez's own doubts about his brother as well.

At bedtime, Morticia is showing the children photos of Gomez and Fester as kids: "Here they are at a birthday party. See the fire trucks?" Just then, the sound of a train whistle pierces through the house, and the family realizes Gomez is playing with his trains, always a bad sign. 14.

ilS. Gomez, in fact, is beside himself with unanswered questions; Fester just seems too unfamiliar with his own past

"He wore that finger trap for two years!" Gomez rants. "Mother had to teach him to eat with his feet!" In his anger, he sends two trains crashing for comfort.

together, adding to the pile already sitting against one wall. While this is happening. Fester has been proving Gomez's suspicions correct, sneaking into the secret chamber and pulling one of the chains. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one, and he is sent rocketing through the house's innards including Pugsley's floor-toceiling piranha tank- before he is deposited outside.

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Looking up from his

fall.

Fester is startled to see Morticia standing above him.

She saw him take his trip through the fishtank, and invites him to take a walk through the family graveyard with her. She shows him the burial places of generations of Addamses, and points out the family credo. Her manner suggests she's beginning to

suspect him too.

20. The Addamses startle everyone at the school with their bizarre manner, particularly Granny and Lurch's idea of a delicious snack to enjoy the show with. But that's nothing compared to Wednesday and Pugsley's performance. To the kids' delight. Fester turns up after all, and with his help, their duel becomes a bloody affair that showers the audience with gore. Back at the house, Abigail is perturbed when Fester is nowhere to be found. She goes around to the side of the house, where vines snake out of the ground and dra^ her down... 21. Later that night,

Wednesday

while Fester tucks

into bed,

Gomez and

out in the graveyard, in the moonlight, basking in the joy of having their whole family together at last. They recall their first meeting at a funeral, and Gomez remembers how beautiful she was "no one even looked at the corpse" before they fall into a passionate embrace. The next morning. Lurch discovers Abigail encased in a plant cocoon; once she is free, she puts on the Dr. PinderSchloss act again and reminds the , family that Fester must leave soon. J Gomez and Morticia announce that iU if he must depart, they will hold a farewell dance in his honor, with Morticia

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appearance in the ballroom, and Gomez leads him in an old family dance, the

Mamushka, in which the brothers juggle scimitars. Startled to find himself adept at the routine. Fester brings it to a climax by catching the last airborne blade in his mouth.

As the

festivities continue,

Tully slips out of the house as Abigail informs him of the

trouble with Wednesday. He reassures her that there's nothing to worry about, and goes for a meeting with Judge

Womack.

26. The party winds down, and Fester bids Flora and

Fauna goodbye. He has become totally enchanted with the Addamses (as has Margaret with Cousin It), and tells Abigail so later. Abigail is shocked, and resorts to a heavy dose of motherly guilt to get Fester back on her side. 27. Once the guests have left, Gomez and Morticia discover Wednesday is gone, and the whole family sets out to find her with the exception of Fester, who volunteers to stay behind in case she returns. She is eventually discovered, asleep in one of the family mausoleums. Lurch carries her as the family \ returns to the house...

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28, ...where they are greeted by a locked gate and Tully with a restraining order. Fester, he informs them, is the rightful owner of the entire

Addams

estate,

and

his

encounter with the twins has brought back a flood of painful memories. Now, Tully says. Fester doesn't want to see Gomez or anyone else. But the patriarch swears that the family shall reclaim rightfully theirs will

what

Z@. Unfortunately, the judge presiding over the case is not especially sympathetic.

30. The Addamses are forced to relocate to the tacky Wampum Motor Court. Morticia tries to reassure the distraught Gomez, but he is inconsolable. Pugsley, at least, is happy to find that the

bathroom

is stocked with individually-wrapped bars of "candy."

The family all set out to find work, with varying degrees of success. Morticia applies at a day-care center, but the stories she tells traumatize the children. Lurch, with his imposing manner, finds more success as a vacuum cleaner salesman. Wednesday and Pugsley open a lemonade stand, offering an especially poisonous home recipe. A Girl Scout happens by, questioning whether the drink is made from real lemons. The children assure her that it is, and she offers them some Girl Scout cookies. "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?" asks Pugsley.

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see to that.

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depression. Resolving to do something about the situation, Morticia heads back mansion, ignoring Thing's best efforts to stop her. Tully lets her in and Morticia winds up in the house's torture chamber, racked and threatened with

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branding irons under Abigail's supervision. In spite of Abigail's entreaties to help her. Fester is torn. Thing, meanwhile, having witnessed what's happened, makes his way back to the motel and alerts Gomez. He arrives at the mansion, Judoflips in through a window and

quickly bests Tully in a duel. But Abigail grabs a gun and holds it to Morticia's head, threatening to kill her if Gomez doesn't show Fester to the vault. When Fester protests, Abigail sneers, "You disgust me... should have left you I

where found you!" I

Struck with revelation. Fester jumps

Gomez's side, telling him he's removing the wrong book. Instead of Greed, he pulls out Hurricane Irene: Nightmare from Above. Opening it. Fester blasts Tully and Abigail out the window. Gomez frees Morticia, and as they escape the raging storm. Fester is hit by a bolt of lightning and knocked

unconscious...

53, It's Halloween, and the whole family is dressed up though not much more oddly

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than usual. And thanks to the romance of Cousin It and Margaret, the clan now has a

new member.

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Make that two new members, as Fester turns out y&V to truly be Gomez's brother after all. Abigail had indeed found him tangled in a tuna net, but with amnesia, and brainwashed him into believing that he was her son. But the bolt of lightning that struck him during the storm restored his memory...

gave him a new ability that delights the kids as well. As the family head out to the cemetery for a game of

r'o. ...and

"Wake the Dead," Gomez hangs back with Morticia, rejoicing in the fact that they are now truly all together again. "What more could we ask?" he says, and Morticia shows him: She's been knitting a baby jumper with three legs. They embrace by the light of the full moon as the rest of the family continues ^ their game in the graveyard.

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The thematic base was that the family is very solid—you would want Morticia as your mother, ”

magine a world where cobwebs are

the popular ’60s cult

considered beautiful, children play

always wanted it to be much more like the original Addams cartoons in terms of humor and visualization,” confirms director Barry Sonnenfeld. “And love

with their still-living food and death is a laughing matter. All these are aspects of the vastly inventive landscape created by Charles Addams for his New Yorker cartoons. With his knack for odd characters,

puns and esoteric Addams always seemed

to cling to the notion that utopia

was

the eye of the beholder (even if the beholder was clutching the eyeball with sharp talons). Now, Paramount Pictures is presenting The Addams Family, a live-action, bigscreen adaptation of those classic in

comics and 18

(to a

much

lesser extent)

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series of the

same name. “1

eccentrics. Ultimately, the Addamses are eccentrics with money. If you’re going to be that strange, being rich is the way to go. If you’re not rich and you’re eccentric, oftentimes you’ll

end up

the street.

you’re rich

and you’re eccentric, you get to boards of museums.”

named

The Addams Family revolves around the homecoming of Gomez

Addams’

(Raul Julia) long-lost brother Fester (Christopher Lloyd). The whole clan, including Morticia (Anjelica Huston), Wednesday

Ricci), Pugsley (Jimmy Workman), Granny (Judith Malina),

(Christina

Lurch (Carel Struycken) and Thing have long anticipated his return after a 25-year absence, but things aren’t exactly as they seem upon Fester’s return his motives and identity may just be a clever scam to milk the Addamses out of their vast riches. “They have their own rules and they live a very separate life,” Addams Family screenwriter Caroline Thompson elaborates. “1 hate to say they bring out the ghoul in us, but they take such glee in their vision of

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the world, and they have such freedom. The movie is all about somebody trying to take that freedom from them and the family restoring it to themselves. There’s something charming about their indomitability.”

The magic revealed. We kinda wished it was a real house too.

Bringing this eccentric brood to the big screen began nearly two years ago, when producer Scott Rudin was

done right by the TV series, which was broader, sillier and campier. It didn’t have the level of

throwing around

sophistication that the Charles Addams cartoons had.” In order to capture this spirit, Rudin enlisted Wilson (Beetlejuice)

the

Addams Family movie reacquainted with the

idea after

New

being Yorker

cartoons. He was quickly drawn to the quirkiness of this family that had “no rules for good behavior.” “Scott had a passion to do this,” recalls Larry Wilson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Thompson. “He worked very hard to get the rights and spent a long time convincing Charles Addams’ former wife that

he would do

right by it. It was was a really good contemporary movie to be his instinct that there

made

out of this.”

“I loved the original source material, and thought it would make a great picture,” agrees Rudin. “The Addams material really interests me. and 1 felt it hadn’t been 1

and

Thompson

had experience in the world of the bizarre through working with filmmaker Tim Burton. “Before Tim, there was an old boy network,” explains Wilson. “After Tim, there was an odd boy network. He opened up the door for this surrealistic

made

Hanover

Suzanne

suburban sensibility and accessible in the

marketplace.”

For Thompson, partnership was a situation

The crew worked around the clock to complete The Addams Family, rarely stopping for meals. Then again, do you blame them?

(Edward

two highly visual writers who were tied to a sensibility that Wilson refers to as “suburban realism.” It also helped that they both

Scissorhands'),

being

new working who had

(unlike Wilson,

previously teamed with Michael McDowell on the Beetlejuice script). Additionally, she was unsure as to whether or not The Addams Family was a project that she could do justice to. “I didn’t feel a big commercial production was my territory,” she admits. With Rudin’s persistence, however, she gave in and discovered that she and Wilson complemented each other’s strong points. While she believes her strengths are keeping characters clean and consistent, she saw Wilson as the instigator of many of the twisted turns the story detoured into. In the end, the two writers were given a free landscape to draw upon, and after several months around a table and of “sitting laughing” the script slowly began to breathe with a life of its own. “We were asked to write a farce

and we both thought Photo:

it should be rather dry,” Thompson explains, “because to me, the Addams family

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is a study of the New England WASP aristocracy. They're not evil, they Just have a very specific vision of the world. They love taking delight in the dreary. And so the goal was to make it dry and witty within the context of the farce.” “We had the latitude from Scott to just run wild with our imagination,” adds Wilson. “The thematic base, though, was that the Addams family very solid you would want is Morticia as your mother— whereas the so-called normal world are the ones who are corrupt and decadent.”

—

hough the tapestry the screenwriters were drawing upon was

intended to be lifted primarily from the Charles Addams cartoons, they did find themselves borrowing varied elements from the ’60s TV show, which most of the film’s primary audience will probably have the fondest memories of anyway. “i grew up with the show, so the images were pretty indelible,” offers Thompson. “People love it, so it was really important to invoke the images that people remember.” The concepts, reworked from the series included the bear rug with a nasty growl and the

glib,

flowing

way Gomez

Groucho.” One change from the TV show was unleashing Thing from his box and allowing this combination of “Lassie and your best friend” to lend a hand whenever necessary around the Addams house. “Caroline and said that if we could at least free Thing from the box, think of all the places he could go and things he could do.” Wilson says. “In a way, it was the most fun Caroline and had writing.” The Addams Family marks the feature directing debut of former director of photography Sonnenfeld, 1

camera

kinetic

style was first displayed in films as Blood Simple, Misery

such

and

Raising Arizona. Since this marked his first baby steps into commanding his own cinematic world, he felt it necessary to bring in a seasoned cinematographer. could “I wanted to be sure concentrate on working with the actors, so wanted a cameraman who was so much better than me that 1 wouldn’t stand around saying, ” ‘Shouldn’t he put that light there?’ I

Christina Ricci sits through a lengthy makeup chair session prior to the kids' uproarious Hamlet scene.

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beautiful.

wouldn’t lighting,

knew if hired Owen, be second-guessing the and it would be one less 1

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thing to think about.” For visual FX supervisor

Alan

Munro, Sonnenfeld ’s familiarity with technical jargon, and experience working behind the camera, made it easier to communicate how the opticals would eventually work into the finished product. “Having a director who is a DP, you can definitely talk to him much more clearly,” Munro confirms. “If we were working on an optical or something, he understood what 1 was talking

about and could see in his mind’s eye the way it was going to look.” Sonnenfeld, on the other hand, was envious of Munro, since for the first time on a film he wasn’t able to shoot all the wild camera tricks that he’s famous for. “As a cinematographer, freak,”

was a

little bit of

Sonnenfeld admits.

a control

“I’d

never

anyone shoot inserts; was always there the whole time. Then suddenly, being a director, I found myself, in let

spoke.

“The one thing you couldn’t get away from was the way the character of Gomez was played by John Astin,” Wilson comments. “That was one case where we heard his voice in our heads. It was like trying to write a new Marx Brothers movie without

whose trademark

notes Sonnenfeld. So I hired Owen [The French Connection] Roizman, because his work is extraordinarily

This

Addams probably

makes

living at

sideshows as a

human

chair.

Munro reveals (among them

that he and his crew David Miller) used practically every trick in the special FX book. Most of the time the hand was played by Christopher Hart, a magician who was either hidden on the set or eventually rotoscoped out of the picture, so only the appendage

remained.

For

special props

other

were

situations, such as

built,

radio-controlled hands, puppet hands (including sword-holding versions) and even stop-motion

models to add to the varying actions so the little helper didn’t resemble

same old Thing. While the living hand was the biggest challenge, the largest-scale the

FX sequence

in the film occurs during the climax, where a hurricane is

unleashed

Gomez’s den from

one of the Addamses’ bewitched library of books. “That required a great deal of stunt double work, miniatures, stop-motion and bluescreens,” details Munro. “There are complicated flying maneuvers of actors being thrown around the room, I built a miniature of the room, so that we could make the hurricane much more violent than we could with a full-sized set.” Designing the Gothic Addams mansion was the responsibility of designer Richard MacDonald, whose creation would make any neighbors on the block a little nervous. What

order to avoid going overbudget, having to let the special effects people do stuff without my even being there. Fortunately, Alan was great and we were very much in sync. It was very difficult for me, because had to relinquish control over the things liked the best. had to work I

with the actors while Alan was getting to use wide-angle lenses and move the camera in wacky ways.”

was a delicate Rudin and Sonnenfeld knew from the start that they wanted Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston to portray Gomez and Morticia. The rest of the cast sort

good movie, and script and casting are the other 97 percent.”

the FX end, The Addams Family turned out to be one of

Munro’s

Street 5:

process,

that

of filled in along the way. According to Wilson, Rudin’s background in the

theater

helped

tremendously

finding people like Malina, whose theater expertise might normally be overlooked when casting a monster film like The Addams Family. “Scott knows all these stage performers, and was able to bring in some really terrific actors and actresses to read for the parts,” praises Wilson. “He cast deeper than

most other Hollywood would have been able

producers to.”

incredibly lucky with the cast

together,” “Directing

Sonnenfeld

“I

feel

put

adds.

about three percent of a

complicated

were much more fantasy-oriented [Beetlejuice and A Nightmare on Elm The Dream Child], and know sounds strange when talking about The Addams Family," he smiles. “There was definitely the feeling that we were trying to make a detached hand look as real as possible. Barry wanted everything to seem

asting the film

but

most

assignments to date, with nearly 200 separate optical shots incorporating matte paintings, rotoscoping and bluescreen processes. “The last two films I worked on

and very matter-of-fact, so that the audience would never question that it was really there. When you’re real

working

something

Beetlejuice, you’re never concerned

whether

the

audience

believes

there’s a 50-foot sandworm with polka dots on it. You just sort of accept it, and take that leap of faith in the film. That’s obviously fantasy, and the real challenge on this film is to make, you really believe that there’s this walking hand and not even question it for a minute.” In transforming an actor’s hand into a functional and moving limb.

was

most

Sonnenfeld’s

disheartening from standpoint, though,

was taking the pristine-looking and through the course of the

set film

wrecking it in order to give it a wornin appearance. “One of the problems when we first built the house was that it looked too beautiful and too new,” Sonnenfeld recalls. “The first week or two, we would actually see dailies and say, ‘This wall looks too nice,’ so we would come in and chop out the wood. Poor Richard MacDonald. He

had done a perfectly beautiful job, and then we came in and just ripped out a wall here, tore out wood,

made these big and sanded the steps so they like they had years of wear.”

repainted things, stains

looked

Now that Sonnenfeld has survived maiden directing voyage, he’s looking forward to spending time away from the wild world he’s devoted the last year of his life to. “Years ago, I passed a kidney stone, and at the time it was one of the worst experiences of my life,” he groans. “And it’s one of the many stories in his

One day I’ll sit back remember that day went home, having worked with a disembodied hand, a ghoul, two sets of twins with two heads and a man dressed up as a hairball. and

repertoire. say, ‘Boy,

when

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—

Raul Julia as ndiana Jones travels the globe searching

''Gomez enjoys life and is very in love with Morticia and his family. He’s just a little

for hair-raising adventures. Gomez Ad-

dams doesn’t have go beyond his own house. “He’s very swashbuckling,” admits Raul Julia, who brings the kinetically demented Gomez to life in The Addams Family. “He’s a

much

gymnast; he does flips, he jumps through windows and he does great

backflip

when

he’s

sword-fight-

ing with his accountant.”

While

most

actors might find these antics quite a walk on the wild side, Julia looked at it as an opportunity to have

some

fun, especially

during the duel with Dan Hedaya, who plays his repugnant lawyer Tully. Instead of using stuntmen, Julia and Hedaya chose to fence for themselves under the guidance of dueling master B.H. Barry.

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Gomez

strange, that’s all,” “Whenever Tully comes to have a business

meeting,

Gomez

practice,” he confirms.

lot of fun.”

sword-fight and duel with him while they’re speaking about the money and the taxes,” explains Julia. “I didn’t mind that Raul and

Though

Danny were doing

their

likes

own

fenc-

comments director Barry Sonnenfeld. “Raul was perfectly in character in that he is a perfectionist at whatever he does he’s physically beautiful to watch.” The duelling posed no problems for Julia, who drew on similar experiences performing in Shakespeare plays. “It was just a matter of

ing,”

“We had a

Gomez

tends to fly through life blinded by his own enthusiasm (which at times gets him in deep trouble), Julia points out that this trait tends to also be Gomez’s saving grace. “He’s a very innocent guy

who

lives in his own happy-go-lucky world where everything’s fine,” relates Julia. “He’s not aware of the evil that regular people are committing all over the place, including those

trying to scam their way into his life and into his money. In a way, his in-

The flamboyant jjerformer's fencing skills came in handy for Gomez's duelling sceneS;

“i don ’t care" how bizarre [.a chardcter is.. .you have to find his truth, otherwise

people won’t believe him,^

Projecting a sense of family togetherness was the key to making the

Addams nocence saves

him without

characters

work on

screen.

him

always knowing he’s being saved.” With his slicked-back hair, nearpencil-thin

mustache and trademark

cigar, Gomez may at first glance look as if he’s the most stable of the highly neurotic Addams clan. But

when it comes down to business, Gomez can in fact be the most rabid, projecting either “all enthusiasm or all despair” during a given moment. “He’s very childlike in spirit,” reflects Julia. “He enjoys life and is very much in love with Morticia and his family. He’s just a little strange, that’s all.” In The Addams Family, Gomez is going through a bit of a midlife crisis. It’s lonely being the patriarch of a family of rascals when the clan isn’t truly complete. For years Gomez has yearned for the homecoming of his long-lost brother Fester, who is rumored to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle 25 years before. But Gomez is in for the surprise of

When Gomez needs steam,

to let off some comes from the model trains

that he gleefully destroys.

his life when a dead ringer for his bald and lumpy sibling (whom their

parents dubbed “inhumanly evil” and Gomez called “brother”) shows

at the Addams’ doorstep for a highly unusual family reunion. “The Addams family is not evil,” Julia stresses. “They love being a little bad, but they are more normal than a lot of people who are so stuck in being good that they lose their sense of life. It’s not a matter of being

bad

a sense

causing people

harm

or suffering, but they live their with a twinkle in their eyes.”

life

omez may be able to backflip through windows and have a

tendency to stage massive wrecks with his toy locomotive but deep down, he is a romantic and his love for Morticia runs blood-deep. The more debonair side of Gomez is revealed in the film’s later reels courtesy of the train set,

heart,

Mamushka inspired

(a Russian Cossackdance), which is a

celebration of brotherly love. The

sequence provided Julia a chance to sing a newly-penned ditty by famed

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Broadway composers Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain and On the Town). “The Mamushka was one of the highlights of making this film,” raves Julia. “It felt like being back on Broadway, doing some of the musicals that I’ve done. It was lots of fun.” Director Sonnenfeld adds, “We wanted the Mamushka to be the scene in the movie that stops everything in the tradition of a Danny Kaye or Marx Brothers movie.” Singing, dancing, flying, fencing... what else could possibly be left to challenge Julia? Well, how about a

little

golf?

had never played

golf before; friends just to see was, but of course did badly,” admits Julia. “But for this part, I took some golf lessons and enjoyed it very much it’s a fun game. I’ll probably play more now that I’ve learned how.” With all the physical feats down, “I

well,

how

maybe with

—

that was left for Julia was to bone up on staying faithful to Charles Addams’ original character. In order to capture Gomez’s essence, Julia pored over many of the original Addams cartoons that, more than the TV show, were the inspiration for the movie. Flipping through that dark underworld, Julia found himself drawn to the cartoons, and he’s proud of the fact that the film sticks close to Addams’ “very unique sense of humor. He was a brilliant cartoonall

with a great wit,” Julia observes. And even though the Addams

ist,

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smoking fedoras.

‘*The

Addams

family

is not evil. They love being a little bad, but they are more normal than a lot of [good] people. ”

clan tend to be “deeply eccentric people,” preferring games of “Wake the Dead” and “Is There a God?” as

opposed

Monopoly,

Julia felt that

order to make the wild situations carry a sensation of truth, he needed to avoid playing Gomez as a broad caricature. The actor also felt it necessary to add a streak of optimism to in

Gomez, who tended to be far more morose in his comic incarnation. don’t care how bizarre or largerthan-life a character is and Gomez is pretty bizarre you have to find his truth, otherwise people won’t believe him,” he opines. “And it’s important that the audience believes in the character, even if it’s slapstick comedy in which the characters are exaggerated. They have to be truthful, or the audience will go to sleep.” Julia isn’t the only one responsible for fully realizing Gomez on screen. Ruth Myers’ quirky costume design has him draped elegantly in “I

—

jackets, silk robes, fezes

and

“Everything supports act“The costumes do a

ing,” Julia notes. lot to

help

me become

the character.

As soon as the hair goes back and the makeup goes on, you start being the character. And when you walk onto a set or location, when things are done brilliantly, then it inspires.” With The Addams Family, Julia is making a rare foray into comedy, following such acclaimed dramatic performances as his role as Harrison Ford’s attorney in last year’s

Presumed Innocent. Julia doesn’t see The Addams Family as a true departure from his dramatic work, and instead opts to look at it as more of a challenge and a license to relax and show his lighter thespian side. “I don’t think I’m always 100 percent comfortable with my work anyway,” he muses. “The more I learn, the more I improve, and in a way I’m able to relax more because know myself in my work much better than I did five years ago. I’m always looking for improvement. Of course, if I I

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and the rest of the world is wrong.

feel they^re right,

his Is probably my favorite project I’ve

done in my costume deRuth Myers enthuses. “For somebody like me, ever

life,”

signer

not only involves

enormous imagination, but

the chance to use skills I’ve been trained for, and just haven’t been able to use for a very long time. “What 1 tried to do,” Myers continues in an irrepressibly happy tone, “what I was told to do, and one of the reasons 1 adored making the film, was that it was done with enormous love you didn’t look at [the Addamses] and say, ‘Ho, ho, look at those freaks.’ On the contrary, you look at everyone else and say, ‘God, why do we look like this?' ” Like everyone else connected with the design end of the film, Myers was told to forget the TV series and instead pay more attention to the original Charles Addams cartoons. In Myers’ case, she didn’t have to forget it. “I had never seen the TV show,” she reveals. “It wasn’t something that ever came to England [where Myers grew up]. 1 was very honest about this gives

Myers crafted this

double-

breasted suit for its

—

1 went to my interview, because thought it was something 1 should look at, but they asked me not to they wanted it to be pure Charles Addams. In fact, did look at it, and it’s just a TV show; this is a film, done in

when 1

much

greater detail." This is not to say, however, that she didn’t take her own liberties with the cartoon source material. “We tried to translate the Addams feeling,

but not be totally

she exan extra sense, an extra texture, an extra beauty, really. The idea always was to express the sense you got from the cartoons, that these people were almost like royalty, people of endless wealth and taste. In that sense, what 1 tried to do was make them look so plains.

“We

literal,”

tried to give

double-

headed wearer.

The

limited color scheme did

not make the job of designing Morticia's

wardrobe any easier.

—

They're married and they make movies together! Costume designer Ruth Myers and production designer Richard MacDonald. of

Myers

and

Addams

Family

designer Richard MacDonald is especially close. “Married, in fact,” she declares with a laugh. “We met on a Joseph Losey film called Galileo. From that moment on, we’ve always had this absolute sense of visualization. We’re odd like that. We like the same films, we like the same cities, we just see things through the same eyes. It’s a strange thing; it’s a wonderful thing, actually.”

While MacDonald may tell other costume designers how their work should fit into the context of his, “With me,” Myers laughs, “he wouldn’t dare. Funnily enough, we have a symbiotic relationship. For instance, the ball sequence [in The

Sketches: Ruth Myers/C^pyright 1991 Paramount

done sort of as k fun thing, because we’d just discovered faxes. So we designed the ball sequence without really speaking about the colors. When came back here, we found we had designed it in exactly the same color range, which is odd, because it was an unusual color range for either I

of us to use.”

Addams Family], was in New York when was drawing this film, doing a

Myers’ methods as a costumer always incorporate a very strong link between character and costumes. Her general approach to the costumes of the Addams family themselves was “to use no new colors. tried every-

movie with Gene Wilder. had to do and the rest of the world is wrong.” all the drawings there, and although There is often a close relationship we were sending each other faxes between the production designer of a back and forth, they were colorless given film and its costumer, but that just black and white, and they were

thing overdyed, oversprayed, painted into. The idea was that they never went to a shop [to buy new clothes], but that somehow these clothes had always been in the family, and were

beautiful that

you

feel they’re right,

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Lurch admires Myers' design for Flora and Fauna's wrap.

these Incredible eyes; with the shaved head and the pale makeup, find yourself almost unable to

you

look at anything but his eyes. “1 wanted to make something that was anatomically correct. Addams’

cartoons weren’t, of course; there Fester

was

just a

Humpty-Dumpty

per-

We tried to base the fat suit on bones and muscles, to get that sort of It was difficult, and I was quite proud of it.” son,

shape.

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*'We had about 50 extras at the dance [scene], and every costume was specially

designed, which

was

of any period. Just heirlooms, like their furniture; these were just things they had around.” Pugsley and Wednesday, the Addams children, were not difficult to design for. “Their basic outfits were very close to the cartoons,” explains Myers. Rather, the two characters whose costumes got the most attention were Gomez and Morticia. “Anjelica always wears black,” Myers describes, “but it’s black on black. Her outfits, as you probably can’t see in the stills but you certainly can see in the film, were immensely textural. I would start off with an overdyed black, with a sort of gold tint, then I’d put lace on top of that and I’d spray over it. So within the black, you’d get different densities.”

Myers was delighted to work with who is known for wearing

Huston,

clothes very well indeed. “But she’s also a real trouper,” Myers praises. “She’s so great, and was ready to put up with real discomfort. She had to be transported to the set in the back of a pickup, because she really couldn’t walk, it was so constricting. She was pulled in and pushed out all over the place to get this extraordinary shape. And because it is an extraordinary shape, she lived with it.

Even breathing wasn’t so easy for her, but she was marvelous, and never complained. I’m terribly grateful to her, because it made a real difference to the look of the film.”

very unusual. ”

omez, on the other hand,

(Sordon/Copyright

the king of costumes of The Addams Family. “He has at least 30 costume changes,” Myers explains. “He has the perfect outfit for

Sue

Melinda

every

occasion; he has silken pajamas, velvet smoking jackets, a marvelous velvet fez he wears in the

evening, a beautiful embroidered vest to fence in. [Raul Julia] played him as a peacock, and he loved his clothes and his clothes loved him. He plays this wonderful, romantic,

—

Douglas Fairbanks figure; he would dash through life in this wonderful, elegant sort of haze.

was enormous

fun.

“He has the most wonderful coat, which we had hand-printed. It’s gray-green, the color of death. It’s marvelous, a sort of paisley, but it’s very, very subtle, and just gives this wonderful extra texture. It’s almost [like a] graphic [design], which is the other thing 1 was aiming for, so you wouldn’t quite know if they were mortal or not.” As for Uncle Fester, he has far fewer outfits than the other leads, so his most important “costume” was one you never see; the fat suit worn under his regular clothes. Myers loved working with Christopher Lloyd. “He was so much fun. We

started off with a lot of prosthetics,

but in the end, we used very few, because he’s such a great actor that he

was able

it all

himself. He’s got

Photos;

Myers got to really cut loose with the elaborate ball held in Fester’s honor. “We had about 50 extras at the dance, and every costume was specially designed, which is very unusual. Some of them were written into the script, some of them we just conceived. There were two-headed people, and people with one arm out the middle of their chest; there were people with long arms and extraordinarily long legs. Then there was a wonderful little woman, Patty Maloney, who’s a terrific dancer. She’s about 4 feet tall, and had a marvelous tango with a man who’s about 6 foot 6. She wore a fringed flapper’s dress of incredible elegance, with flowers in her hair. It should look quite marvelous. “Again, as with the costumes for the family, 1 tried to pick up every period,” Myers continues. “We had a Renaissance person, we had Botticelli people, we had a Miss Havisham bride. 1 don’t think there’s a single person who worked on the film who doesn’t really, really feel great belief in The Addams Family, ” and feel very excited about it.

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Siiountless ships, air-

planes and tourists ^%!have disappeared forever in that enigma called

—

During preproduction,

the Bermuda Triangle, but only Uncle Fester has gotten out of that watery

Lloyd,

(Lurch) and Judith Malina (Granny) were all fitted with

black hole in one piece and lived

tell

about it. Of course, being an Addams does help a bit.

potential pros-

thetic pieces

look closer to the original

Charles

Addams

creations. Lloyd

seance to bring Uncle Fester back, because they think that he’s dead,” explains Raul Julia

(Gomez).

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head to get the

Torn between duty to his mother and his growing empathy with the

bald Fester look instead of using a bald cap, step after a 25-year absence, he’s greeted with since that process would have ultimately takwarmth, skepticism and a good share of unanen hours to apply on a daily basis. swered questions. “Christopher looks absolutely marvelous, Is this the Fester who many moons ago did Addamses, the charand there’s not a piece of prosthetic on him," time with Gomez at Camp Custer for preteen acter of Fester taxed Christopher Lloyd's raves Struycken. “He just plays Fester and offenders? Is this the Fester who stood by his acting skills. becomes Fester.” loving brother’s side when as mere children Lloyd’s ability to take on a role mentally as they lit up their fireplace in eager anticipation well as physically impressed Rudin, and was one of the of Santa Claus’ Yuletide arrival? Or is this a shifty, secdeciding factors in casting him. ond-rate con artist posing as Fester in order to get his “He has an extraordinary ability to physicalize the hands on the Addamses’ unlimited assets? character,” affirms the producer. “He would come on the “I’m very suspicious of him, because I’ve been studyset, and all of a sudden he’d turn around and Chris would ing up on the Bermuda Triangle most of my life, and one be gone and there’d be Fester.” of the main rules of the Bermuda Triangle is no one ever Ricci saw Lloyd as very “quiet and concentrated” on comes back alive,” explains Christina Ricci, who plays Wednesday. “1 do find out he’s a lot like our family. He the set, and marveled at how much Lloyd used his body to transform himself into character. “He totally deforms loves blood and gore, and he loves fighting. He knows a his face to fit the character in his own way,” relates Ricci. lot about the human body and where to cut people so “He’s got a great face, and he has expressions that I they bleed to death. I find out he’s really like me in a way, could never think of him making. He also can make his and start to believe just a little bit that he is my father’s eyes big or small, and he makes them very big for long-lost brother.” 1

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Christopher Lloyd’s portrayal of Fester adds yet another innovative eccentric to his vast catalog of screen creations, ranging from the brilliantly scattered Doc Brown in the Back to the Future series to the diabolically evil Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Producer Scott Rudin cites the Fester role as perhaps the toughest Addams character to cast, since the actor had to be both shady yet lovable in order to keep an aura of mystery surrounding Fester’s true intentions. “We had the idea that Fester should be dangerous and also tender, but we had a hard time finding somebody we were happy with for the part,” Rudin explains.

Fester.”

Lloyd’s timid nature offscreen was a surprise to many members, but by that same token, many, including Julia, found his down-to-earth nature refreshing. The actor believes it made things more comfortable in getting the wiki chemistry flowing between the characof the cast

ters.

“His ego doesn’t get in his way,” concludes Julia. “It’s wonderful when that happens; really enjoyed working with him. He’s just a great creator of character, and he picks one thing and makes it happen... he really is a won1

derful character actor.

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Christina Ricci always

rids

seem

rehearsal, 1 forgot my lines during the

away murder

jet

with

death sequence,” explains Ricci, who also found being

these days, and

Wednesday

drenched in fake blood to be rather unpleasant. “It was kind of uncomfortable the blood wasn’t sticky, it was oily, but

—

Addams

is no different she just takes things a bit too literally. So it’s not a shock to discover that she’s always threatening her brother Pugsley, especially while playing the friendly game of “Is

—

when

There a God?” which includes strapping him to an electric

who

plays

Wednesday.

And like cats, the Addams kids seem to have nine lives, since they never seem to be permanently harmed by their brushes with mortality. “It’s great, because 1 know that in real life, none of this would ever be possible,”

feels

Los Angeles whenever necessary for her film “New Jersey is

duties.

where we

lived before

got into the business,” she explains. “Being an actress,

you get to see and learn

smiles Ricci. “I’d get in a lot of trouble if it was possible, it’s great to have a chance to do all this really wicked

things most kids don’t, and also my brothers and sisters

meet

stuff.”

because they get to kinds of famous

all

people.”

Ricci describes her character

“solemn”

over you

“They’ve become kind of to death right now,” affirms 11-year-old

immune

all

she informs. “And 1 had it all over me. There were puddles on the stage and 1 would fall into them. ..it was an oilbased dye, so was red all over for a while.” Not letting the world of film taint her education (she attends public school), Ricci and her family still live in New Jersey and commute to

chair.

Christina Ricci,

it’s

sticky,”

and

adds

Acting comes naturally for Ricci, whose talent was discovered when she was in a school play. A columnist saw her performance and sug-

that

Wednesday’s backward view provides a fresh perspective on certain nuances of life that “a normal 11-year-old girl wouldn’t see. Everybody has a strange side,” Ricci believes. “And people can relate to the family,

gested to Ricci’s parents that they should get her a manager, which led to some commercial work. Then she landed in the comingnot totally but halfway.” of-age tale Mermaids, followed now by The trips to the dentist Of the two Addams siblings, Wednesday their tooth-extraction Addams Family. And for one who’s only 11 has a more acquired taste for inflicting pain methods just aren't years old, Ricci comes off as far more wellpainful enough. and acting out morbid displays of mutilation. adjusted and self-assured than actors twice Even her room comes fully equipped with a her age. guillotine that she uses to behead her dolls. have dolls “She’s a real smart cookie,” praises Carel Struycken, all over my room on shelves and in cages, torture chamwho plays Lurch, Whenever you didn’t quite know what bers and some waiting in guillotines,” muses Ricci. “1 also was going on at the set people would walk up to her and have a cage waiting for Skipper he’s a big bully, and me find out.” “1 love to listen and 1 love to know what’s and Pugsley are going to put him in this cage.” happening,” The highlight for Ricci, though, was the chance to per- admits Ricci. “I’m into everything. 1 have a long nose for form one of the bloodiest passages from Shakespeare’s that stuff.” Hamlet in the movie, when Wednesday and Pugsley take As for her acting future, Ricci feels that it should come part in their school’s talent show. “The other kids are all second to her studies. She and her parents are also being dressed up as ladybugs, bunnies and watermelons and extremely selective when looking through scripts, makdoing these cutesy-wootsy little things, and we’re killing ing sure the roles she plays are of just as high a quality each other,” Ricci grins. as her first two features. This proved to be an intricate and difficult sequence “Many people say acting’s hard,” she comments. “1 for Ricci, since it involved remembering her lines, chopthink acting is easy and there are certain things 1 do as an ping off Pugsley’s limbs and making sure the tubes that actor that are hard, but if you really try you can definitesprayed blood all worked properly. “A lot of times during ly do them. For me, it’s a big playground. -yrm

Wednesday hates

—

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Jimmy Workman

Pugsley

os hildren

ting to fence with Ricci in

shouldn’t play with

a scene from

dead things but then

Hamlet that

again,

you’re

kids perform in a school

Addams

the

— result-

malevolent

play

Addams

kid

ing in a gory

like Pugsley,

duel to the

your hobbies won’t necessarily con-

death.

was also

sist of collect-

scene that

ing baseball

didn’t

cards

“There

and

a 1

playing Nerf

much, where she

football.

ties

too

“He’s not any other

each end of the room, puts an ap-

10-year-old,” grins Jimmy

ple

Workman,

mouth and

the young actor who brings the lovable yet

shoots

an arrow at me. If it had been up to me, I

menacing Pugsley to

would’ve tied

life.

“He steals stop he plays pranks on people, he shrinks to miniature size he thinks much more than a kid his age. He thinks he’s the only person who can do pranks like he pulls. He’s really signs,

—

and Pugsley adds a spe-

apple

ingredient to his tea as part of his

sister

cial

Nabbing the Pugsley role was a bit of an accident for the enthusiastic Workman. The day his older sister was to try out for the part of the Addams daughter Wednesday, the Workmans’ babysitter quit, and Jimmy had to accompany his sister to the audition. “1 sat downstairs and they asked her if she had any brothers or sisters,” recalls Workman. “She said, ‘I have one brother, and he’s downstairs.’ So I went up and met with the producer and director, and came back about three more times before they called me up and said I got the job.” Though his sister didn’t win the part of his onscreen sibling. Workman says she didn’t mind too much, since she had already had a chance to act in Les Miserables, while this was his first chance to enjoy a little bit of the spotlight. Christina Ricci eventually ended up with the role of the brooding Wednesday. Though she was only a sur1

rogate sibling. Workman muses that, “Sometimes we fought like brothers and sisters, and sometimes we got along real good.” One of the more exciting scenes for

^ ^^ ^

Workman was

get-

her up put the

room

home

with his

and frequently sleeps on the couch, so one of the pleasures of playing Pugsley was the chance to have his own space for a change, even if it was only a set on a soundstage. “Pugsley has a room with a piranha tank, stop signs all over the wall, two beds, a skateboard and a chemistry set,” he beams. “I’d love to have a room like that so could hang my real sister up by her toes.”

unbalanced

funny.”

her mouth.” Workman shares a in

diet.

Yet unlike Pugsley, Workman doesn’t go as far when pulling off morbid pranks though he did inherit some of the Addamses’ sense of playfulness that he practiced soon thereafter on his real family. “I have these plastic snakes, and I put them on my mom’s bed, so when she wakes up in the morning she always yells, ‘Jimmy!’ ” grins Workman. “I also tied my sister to a chair; she’s just a little bit taller than me, but she’s also skinny, so she just worked her way out of it.” Working on a huge production like The Addams Family was a treat for the young thespian, and he’s excited to see the final product. Already his friends have seen the trailers in theaters and are equally anxious to see his per-

—

formance as “the pugster.” “It’s spooky and it’s ooky,” Workman says. “Go see the movie because it’s funny, and because I’m in it.”

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Care! Struycken

lere are many who serve man but only Lurch serves the Addams family. “Lurch is a kind of protector maybe not of the Addamses, but perhaps to

Lurch

—

that this

guard the outside world from “Carl”) Struycken,

who

edge earned him a reputation as “the green grocer to the stars” on the set. “I would bring my Chinese cabbage to my dressing room, where it would be devoured on the spot,” he laughs. Born in Holland and raised in the Caribbean, Struycken came to Hollywood hoping to get a job behind the camera, but his striking appear-

adds. But don’t expect Lurch to intone his trademark “You rang” line that

echoed throughout the old television series. The

ance made him a star before he had even begun to take steps toward an career. “The acting

movie, keeping in tune with the darker Charles

Addams

cartoons, presents Lurch as silent, communi-

moment

—

made

acting

think it,”

before

dif-

theories of how this gentle and rather artistically and culturally enriched his

—

creature more comfortable reading literature and playing the organ than roaming around suburbia frightening middle-class “In

—actually came into being.

the house, there are portraits of

all

the

screen.”

After making his genre debut

under John Buechler makeup

The

Prey, Struycken moved on to roles in such higher-profile projects as The Witches of Eastwick and Twin Peaks, where he provided otherworldly guidance to Kyle MacLachlan. The actor looks at this experience as preparation for Lurch, a role he convinced producer Scott Rudin and director

own

housewives

came

remembers. “I was known had even been on

much harder to get across a sense of personality without dialogue.” Lurch’s origins are somewhat vague in the Addams continuity, but Struycken develficult; it’s

oped

Hollywood, people would always come up to me and was somebody else,” he

cating only in sporadic noises that

grumbling

“It

demeanor and garden knowl-

clan of eccentrics ever really gets into serious trouble. “He sees himself as the parent of a whole bunch of 2year-olds that have to be kept in control,” the actor

shrugs.

—but

kids. In fact, Struycken’s gentle

look out for themselves, but Struycken believes that Lurch has a built-in instinct to watch over them, just in case this

Struycken found limiting. “1 grunt that’s about

to me don’t think

what happens

really believed me.”

While filming The Addams Family, however, none of the other actors reacted as dramatically as those

plays

the loyal servant.

The Addamses may be able

every Halloween

them,” muses the towering Carel (pro-

nounced

)X^

they don’t know what to do. That’s been our little game for the past five years. 1 told Barry Sonnenfeld, when we were doing that scene,

"Deck the halls with bones and cobwebs..." Lurch insures that the

Addamses'

Barry Sonnenfeld he was born to play. “At my first and last meeting with the two of them, I said, ‘I came to Hollywood 15 years ago and ever since I’ve lived here, at least once a week somebody walks up to me on the street and asks me, ‘Are you Lurch?’ So I think you’ve found your

Christmas tree is fully trimmed.

deceased Addamses,” explains Struycken. “1 kept noticing certain traits that had somehow been incorporated into Lurch, so I had this idea that maybe the Addamses went through their graveyard, collected some bones, and put Lurch together. They reanimated him from a composite of deceased relatives.” At 7 feet tall, Struycken casts an imposing figure, and much like Lurch in the movie, he tends to have his own unique effect on trick-or-treaters when October 31 creeps around. “There’s a scene in the movie that’s almost exactly like what I’ve experienced at home over the past five years,” he smiles. “Every time it’s Halloween, 1 hold a little flashlight under my face to create an eerie reflection and shadow, and my daughter holds the candy. When 1 open the door, all the children run away screaming

man,’

”

relates Struycken.

Though he can now proudly announce

any future

fans that he

is indeed Lurch (the film version at least), Struycken does long to get behind the camera and work on some of his own projects, even if they are only short productions. “Acting doesn’t come naturally to me,” he admits. “It has never been an ambition of mine. I would prefer to be on the other side of the camera. I would rather be an observer a fly on the wall than somebody who sticks out quite obviously.

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'IM}”.

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f’*rum5,

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or me,” claims’ Richard MacDonald, “designing is the best part of film-

making.

Making

films is, in fact, actually boring. The

only job I could possibly think of doing is designing.

The thought

bmlt the i

wtors

m we had

start Sooner

king for

tirst,

were

fit

Imtmmon

of directing,

or any of

the other jobs, is just silly. To stay in that dark room all the time?” For The Addams Family, respected designer MacDonald didn’t have to work in dark rooms, but he did design several of them. “I used very dark colors,” he explains. “We wanted to give the house some real atmosphere. It’s paneled, with woodwork and heavy Victorian furniture. So it’s a very rich, dark house. The people are all dark and sort of... you know, very solid. “The ground floor is rather like a palace, in the sense that it isn’t fur-

nished with magazine racks and bookshelves and lamps,” he continues. “The furniture is out in the middle of the room so the servants can move around and hand your tea over the back. In rooms nowadays, the furniture is jammed up against the walls, and you don’t have that

and luxury,” MacDonald says with satisfaction. With a laugh, the designer admits that he can’t say what the overall design approach for the movie was, but adds, “The general approach was to keep away from the TV show, to cresort of feeling of space

ate a fresh look at the characters. 1 had to do something a little bit heavier [than the series design] to make it stand up on screen.” Although director Barry Sonnenfeld and producer Scott Rudin advised MacDonald not to watch the series, he admits that “1 did, actually,

look at it, and 1 remembered the shows, so it crept in a bit. But it was an entirely different piece of mateMacDonald's drawings of the Addams abode proved unmatchable by any real houses.

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How

rial, because they went back and wrote the film from the cartoons.” MacDonald also had to rethink the look because he was working in color, and the original Addams cartoons were all in blacks, whites and grays. “You couldn’t go back and match anything out of Addams.” This presented a certain problem when it came to designing the house’s exterior. “We looked through all of Addams’ drawings, and the house goes up and down and in and out, never the same house twice. The producers set off to find the Addams house, thinking that they were scattered all over the Eastern seaboard

and, of course, there are a lot of them.” MacDonald had to reconcile the various approaches Addams took to the house, so “1 did a cartoon, a

very simple drawing, of thought the windows were

what

like, the number of floors, where the doors were, and everything else like that. It was a good outline, very simple, like

an Identikit.” But the simple perfection of his drawing almost proved a handicap. “We built the interiors first, because we had to start sooner or later, and they were still looking for the house. They used my drawing on stationery, and on car decals, to sort of identify the production, you know, a T-shirt kind of thing. But it gathered so

much

authenticity that they wouldn’t

approve any house that didn’t look and of course, there wasn’t one. So in the end we built one to look like what had drawn.” just like that

—

can

anyone

sit

comfortably in those chairs with that bear looming behind

them?

What's wrong with this picture?

Nothing;

it's

just another

Addams interior.

The facade

of the

Addams

family

home was

built on a hill above BurStough Park, with its back facing out over a very high bluff. This allowed director Sonnenfeld to use the sky as a backdrop in all shots of

bank,

the front of the house, greatly simplifying things. “We built it up there to get a plain background,” MacDonald points out, “and we put in only what

wanted.”

acDonald designing

has

films

for

making films there, he and MacDonald soon linked up. In a rich British accent that makes him sound like perfect casting for a retired colonel, MacDonald explains his transition. “1 was teaching painting at a school of art in London when

met Joe. 1 was messing around, doing cartoon projects and films. Joe hired me just to draw things for him, and that’s how it came about. [In 1

been

those days] they had to hire an art director, and doubled, because they

many

wouldn’t

years. He began in British advertising back in the early 1950s, working with the respected Halas-

Batchelor animation team (Animal among others). When

Farm,

American director Joseph Losey, driven out of Hollywood by the blacklist, arrived in England and began

let

the union.”

Over the years, he’s designed

some very

significant films on both sides of the Atlantic. His output has

included such genre films as Exorcist The Heretic, Altered States, SpaceCamp and Something Wicked This Way Comes. The Addams Family isn’t

II:

his

first

movie derived from

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car-

You have to watch your feet on some stairways; on this one, you have to watch the heads as well. so you have to use those which remain saturated.” The colors and designs were partially intended to demonstrate the

out,

vast gulf between the Addams family and the real world they’re forced to move into when they’re driven out of their elegant mansion. The real world was kept “kind of nasty,”

laughs MacDonald. “[The Addamses] have to live in a motel, with vinyl chairs, things which are made to stand up to the use of commercial travelers.”

The look was designed

the

Addams home

to create “the idea that

people should envy their way of life,” according to MacDonald. “They’re all individualists, and live a life that suits each of them. Not like new money, old money [the Addamses]

—

have gone beyond all that, and live the way they want to. They’re aristocrats,

they don’t bother about keep-

up with the Joneses. They’re very their lives— they don’t even regard them as eccentric.” Their abode is vast, and downstairs the rooms “all lead into each other, which gives them a more expansive look. There’s a sort of double picture gallery, studies, a library, ing

happy with

a sort of grand sitting room, a central hall and a dining room, quite modest, with a conservatory leading off. There’s a ballroom at the back on the half-landing. It’s a very large space, like the great Victorian glass houses from the Crystal Palace onwards.” Naturally, such a home required

Much of it was found in atantique stores, prop warehouses and other places all around Southern California, though MacDonald and company had to create some themfurniture.

tics,

selves. “We needed a really big kitchen table, so we built it. We were

toons, as he’s previously

Supergirl

and what

worked on probably

Losey’s strangest movie, the very peculiar adaptation of the comic strip

Modesty Blaise, which

still

Mac-

Donald’s favorite. MacDonald is hard pressed to pinpoint how much input Sonnenfeld had. “It was the Addams concept that had the input,” he observes, “so we were all chasing a very elusive butterfly. [Sonnenfeld] had to spend all his time nailing down the story, which gave me the freedom to nail down the visuals.” Colors are something MacDonald cares a great deal about; if you’re familiar with any of the films in the list above, or with other MacDonalddesigned movies such as The Rose or Coming To America, you’ll know he has a very strong style when it comes

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to their use. “Some colors,” he explains, “retain their tone, their actual quality, from light to dark, and they of the same hue. Certain browns will do that, certain golden yellows will do it. But pale yellows are so fugitive you never

remain something

know; when

it goes through film, it out green, or blue, or only Very light greens, very very light pinks, they go purple and things like that. I keep away from those.” On The Addams Family, MacDonald explains, “1 went for more tone value, contrasts between dark and heavy really got light, and brown/blacks, which come out very rich on color film. Color is a very difyou get a deal with; ficult thing to stronger sense of color if your tone sense is strong. Some colors burn

will

come

just yellow. light blues,

rather grandly, and the it kitchen needed a great, handsome These things have vanished kitchens, you know, in large with the private houses, along with cooks. We found quite a bit of big Victorian, Edwardian furniture, dating from 1850 to the turn of the century. It was all in pretty rotten condition, so we did quite a bit of patching up.” The Addams Family is, ultimately, a very American movie, but that pleased MacDonald. “I can look at a thing more clearly, find out what it’s all about,” he says of working in countries outside his own. “If you’re used to it, it can pass you by. I enjoy going to foreign ports and finding

doing

table.

and

what’s

And few things could be than The Addams Family.

str ange r

out

what’s

strange

similar.”

Christopher Hart le person

who

referred to a

dog being man’s best friend never met Thing, the family’s disembodied hand. With this pet, you don’t

\li9

Addams

Thing

—

even more

The performer did

running, jumping and playing chess, but the

wear and tear really began to show itself when Thing had to run across a busy street at night.

“Hands are not designed to run on,” he explains. “So take after take, your hands

someone who

start

ments required by the character “gracefully.”

After looking at magi cians and not being terribly impressed, Sonnenfeld sensed his deepest fear was about to the mimes,’

”

getting tired.

When was running across the intersection, was being pushed in a cart by one of the grips and my fingers were touching the asphalt, and after a few takes it started eating through my skin. And we had

could convey emotions and feelings as a hand, they also had to find someone who could perform the intricate move-

“1

get a

strenuous hand workout in the end, which included

Of all the film’s eccentric casting. Thing was the most difficult. Not only did Sonnenfeld and producer Scott Rudin have

true.

difficult,” recalls

Hart.

concept.”

come

being.

“They told me 1 would maybe be under a table or something like that, but for some reason, every time 1 had done what 1 thought was an incredibly difficult scene, they would have another one for me that would be

have to worry about the furniture being marked up or stenches that stretch for blocks Thing is worry-free. And besides, when was the last time your pet lent a hand around the house? “In the TV series. Thing stayed in the box,” explains director Barry Sonnenfeld. “One of the great things our screenwriters did was to actually allow Thing to roam throughout the house, which was a wonderful, but expensive,

to find

put in situations where he had to be concealed, Hart was surprised how grueling that process

wound up

said, ‘OK, let’s call

to shoot it at night when the wind was blowing and it was very cold. When you’re dealing with your hands in cold weather, your muscles tend to tense up those

recalls Sonnenfeld. “But

—

mime comes in and pretends be in a glass box, 1 don’t want to speak things made my job a lot more difficult.” to them; they’re kicked out right away.” With Thing jokes running rampant on the When Sonnenfeld finally decided that mimes set, Hart never got through a day without Looks like might be silent but deadly to his mood on the someone making a bad pun, but the strangest Christopher Hart set, he recontacted magician Christopher Hart, incident occurred when a person thought his recently took a the only illusionist who had impressed him durmade-up Thing hand was a prop. “Someone trip to the secing the first round of interviews. The director wanted to meet me, and had my little wrist ond-hand store. believed he could do the right Thing with the piece and makeup on, and they started to role, and Hart took on the challenge. touch my hand and said, ‘My God, it feels so “They looked at a ton of different types of people who real,’ ” remembers Hart. “It was funny, because don’t use their hands, because it was such a unique role and know what they were thinking. They must have thought the hand was obviously the focus of the part,” relates it was some robotic hand attached to me.” Hart. “They ended up going with me because my hands And even though Thing is much like a beloved pet. are very large and have long fingers, but they went Hart’s own theories into the hand’s background led him through different concepts deciding whether the hand to look at the little entity as being more than that. should be gory and deformed or be nice-looking.” “He’s a legitimate family member,” Hart concludes. “I Preparing the makeup on Hart was relatively painless, was thinking he must have been the brother of Gomez or though he did have the hair shaved from his hands to Morticia who somehow had his hand cut off. He’s considhalfway up his arms on a daily basis. The prosthetics, ered part of the family. All. the characters treat him with however (which included a fake stump), took 45 minutes so much love; consider him like a dog who’s developed to an hour to apply, and despite knowing he would be more of his own personality.” if

a single

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^^^^

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John Franklin ing from laughing, and they said, ‘You got it

e could play power

« Cousin

ballads in a heavy

metal band. He could be a spokesperson for a major line of hairI

most.’

”

Though playfulness

care products. He could put an end to male pattern baldness as we know it. But he’s simply Cousin It

Franklin’s

was

partially

responsible for his gaining the part, his experience with roles

—

5-foot-tall

you made us laugh the

that required special makeup appliances (including portray-

undefinable furball

ing the young Beast in CBS’ Beauty and the Beast} also emerged as an important factor. “I’ve played a million from bizarre characters Vulcans to leprechauns, so they knew I could handle all the makeup that was required,”

who makes token appearances at the Addams household for and the very traditional Halloween game of “Wake the Dead." Franklin, the actor John underneath It all, sees this hairy being, who speaks in a high-pitched warble of a language that only the Addamses can fully understand, as the ultimate anti-prejudice symbol. “He’s like a Spock character,” explains Franklin. special parties

Studios

head, so

felt like

a car

accident victim walking around with this neck

different-looking.”

of hair styling

Alterian

brace,” jokes Franklin.

Unfortunately for a character who requires plenty

Courtesy

and manage-

ability, Franklin is allergic

Photo:

to hairspray. In order to avoid zapping out his vocal

chords and making him Tony Gardner (right) and Vance Hartwell create a hairdresser's

unable to speak, special types of alternative hair care were used to keep Cousin It from looking unkempt. “They ended up using something called Happy Hair, which has a lanolin base but without any aerosol In

dream as they suit up the parts open to him. He’s best remembered John Franklin (top). it,” the actor reveals. by horror fans as the leader of the killer kids Although Cousin It’s role in The Addams in the Stephen King vehicle Children of the Family was originally intended as a cameo, Rudin and Corn, released in 1984. Sonnenfeld were so impressed with Franklin’s work that “Unless you’re Michael J. Fox, it’s very difficult to get they expanded the role considerably. “They decided that parts,” he observes. “It’s a blessing and a curse.” since It was taking on a life of his own, they wanted to Luckily, Michael J. Fox wasn’t auditioning for the part put me in the ending and increase the role,” Franklin of It. During his tryout, Franklin made a strong imrecalls. “At the wrap party, Scott Rudin said, ‘I just want pression on director Barry Sonnenfeld and producer to tell you that we never thought that It would take on Scott Rudln, keeping them in stitches with his wild sense this much of a life. Most of the time we end up cutting of spontaneity and humor. stuff from actors, but since you brought so much to the “They asked me if I could dance, because there’s a big character, we’ve added things, and that’s very rare.’ ballroom scene, so I grabbed the casting assistant and “Charles Addams had the idea that even though the just waltzed across the room with her,” Franklin recalls. people are different and outwardly strange-looklng, it “Then 1 said, ‘I feel it’s necessary to prove to you that I’m didn’t matter in this unified family,” concludes Franklin. a serious actor, so I’d like to do a monologue from “There are still feelings there, there’s still love and Hamlet,' and their jaws just dropped. 1 stood in the cormorals and goodness. You just can’t be prejudiced ner and dramatically gathered myself, turned around and because of what people look like I’ve felt that way my in my It voice 1 did a monologue, pounded on the floor and cried to the heavens. They just lost it and were cry- whole life.”

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metal frame with varying levels of hoops on it hung from his shoulders to keep the fullness of the suit’s shape intact. “It all sat on

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