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This 'Addams Family' lacks snap
It has all the weight and nutritional value of cotton candy. But "The Addams Family," the Broadway musical that has taken up temporary residence at the Hippodrome Theatre, adds up to a mildly entertaining package of song and shtick. Revised since its New...Tags: Concerts, Music, Gomez (music group), Carolyn Jones, The Addams Family (musical)
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Second thoughts on 'The Addams Family'
"The Addams Family" seemed to have everything going for it when the musical opened on Broadway two years ago: a book by the creators of the mega-hit "Jersey Boys"; two exceedingly popular stars, Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth; and a title known to...Tags: Modern Family (tv program), Concerts, Music, Tourism and Leisure, Nathan Lane
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John Astin is still everyone's favorite Gomez Addams
After a performance of "The Addams Family," the Broadway musical now playing at the Hippodrome Theatre, a tall, bald, mustachioed man went backstage to greet the cast — the original, the ultimate Gomez Addams, John Astin.
Douglas Sills, who...Tags: Music, Daryl Hannah, Arts and Culture, Stranger Than Fiction, Felix Silla
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New 'Addams Family' Adds Some Heart (And Some Snap, Snap)
The Hartford CourantIt's been a long and hard — not to mention spooky and ooky — road to get "The Addams Family"musical first to Broadway and then on tour. The national road company opens its one-week run Tuesday at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing...Tags: Music, Services and Shopping, Brooke Shields, Music Industry, Taylor Hackford
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UMBC professor, author heeds call of the West
To those who think U.S. 50 is primarily a road that spans Maryland's bucolic Eastern Shore, Christopher Corbett begs to differ.
Corbett, an award-winning journalist and author, spent countless hours traversing the dusty stretch of Old U.S. 50 that lies...Tags: Wallace Stegner, Mark Twain, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Rodeo, Metal and Mineral
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Theater review: 'The Addams Family' from Florida Theatrical Association
Charles Addams' cartoon creations are still creepy and kooky as described in the lyrics of their 1960s sitcom. They remain fond of the color black, instruments of torture, bumps in the night and screams of terror.
During the staged musical version of...Tags: Concerts, Music, Entertainment, Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Gomez (music group)
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Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...Tags: Brian de Palma, Tony Richardson, Paul Williams, Jan de Bont, Maryland Film Festival
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Leo Cullum dies at 68; prolific New Yorker cartoonist
A woman holding a martini turns to a garishly dressed man in a bar and says, "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket."
Through that cartoon — the first published by the New Yorker in the grim weeks after the 9/11 terrorist...Tags: Cat (animal), Education, Dog (animal), Entertainment, Book
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Even for Neil Gaiman, 'The Sandman' is a singular dream
Even in casual conversation, British author Neil Gaiman sometimes sounds as if he's narrating some dark fairy tale -- his sentences slither across old stone floors or flit on gossamer wings. He also happens to live in a rambling Minnesota manse that...Tags: Movies, Family, Robert Zemeckis, William Shakespeare, Peter Jackson
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TV's Vampira Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the early days of television, when horror movies were often campy by nature, actress Maila Nurmi created the character Vampira, a glamorous ghoul who as hostess of late-night fright films in the 1950s layered on her own brand of camp. Vampira played...Tags: People (magazine), Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Comedy (genre), Society
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Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Movies, Arts and Culture, Kenneth Rexroth, Tuberculosis, Thomas Mann
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'The Addams Family' had a rough move-in
The Arts Club in Chicago is a tony member's eatery favored by architects and artists, featuring a steel staircase designed by Mies van der Rohe and a permanent collection of works by Alexander Calder, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
It was no...Tags: Family, Richard Strauss, Anjelica Huston, Stranger Than Fiction, Comedy (genre)
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