Addams Family Personality Quiz on Facebook

The same Addams Family personality test available on Quibblo and Quizilla is now available on Facebook!

Which Addams Family Member Are You?

Addams Family Fashion on Polyvore

Three fashion "sets" are currently available for viewing on polyvore.com
Polyvore is a website community that allows people to mix and match clothing articles, among other things, to create original outfits, or "sets." The above and below fashion sets have been inspires by the Addams Family!

"Modern Mechanix" March 1949

blog.modernmechanix.com recently posted an interesting, vintage Charles Addams article.


View the full blog entry on blog.modernmechanix.com

1965 Card Game for Download

andertoons has uploaded the complete 1965 Addams Family Filmways TV/Milton Bradley card game on flickr.com

For full color scans of the cards, box, and instructions, follow the link!

Funeral Customs Museum in Danger

Not exactly Addams Family news, but certainly news that the Addams Family themselves would be concerned with:

Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, Illinois is in danger of being closed down. The museum has already ceased normal business hours, changing to appointment only showings. It now faces the real possibility of being closed down completely.

Read about the museum's plight on the New York Times site
or the Morbid Anatomy Blog

Man Is Jailed for Whistling Addams Family Theme

Man sent to jail for whistling “The Addams Family” theme song. He was sentenced to 20 weeks of prison for harassing his neighbors for four years by whistling the theme song from “The Addams Family” every time he saw them.

Read More on The Sheffield Telegraph

Casting Call

Open auditions for “The Addams Family” The Musical are being held in New York on October 29th! For all you Addams Family fans out there who happen to be professional dancers, here are the details:


The Addams Family- The Musical- Equity Chorus Call/Dancers
Producer: Stuart Oken Workshop Contract $560/week minimum (if a 5-day week) or $672/week minimum (if a 6-day week).

Workshop dates: January 14 – 27, 2009.

Seeking: Ensemble Dancers (m/f): 20s – 40s, all ethnicities. Strong classically and technically trained dancers who have a strong contemporary background. Seeking all types, with a quirky sense of movement and style. Seeking dancers who sing very well. Knowledge of tango and flamenco dancing a plus.

Some good things about being in a Workshop Contract production:
In addition to the salary the Actors earn during the Workshop sessions, they also earn a share in the future success of the show. For their contributions to the development of the show, the Actors share in contingent compensation that takes two forms. First, the Actors share in the weekly box office gross when the show is produced under contract; that is, the Actors, as a group, share a percentage (usually 1%) of the gross box office receipts. However, the percentage of gross receipts may increase when there is more than one session of the Workshop. Equity determines each Actor’s share based on the number of days/weeks that the Actor participated in the Workshop.

Second, the Actors share in any subsidiary rights income which is generated by the play. For example, subsidiary rights income can come from royalties from foreign productions, stock and amateur rights, or from the sale of motion picture rights. The Actors’ share of subsidiary rights is usually 1.5% of net receipts.

Those Actors who complete the Workshop must also be offered employment to perform the same role or function in the first subsequent production of the play under a standard Equity contract, or they must be offered no less than four weeks’ minimum salary under the appropriate Equity contract.

Equity Chorus Call/Dancers
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
10 AM – Equity women dancers who sing well
2 PM – Equity men dancers who sing well
@
Ripley-Grier Studios
520 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor

Please be warmed up and ready to dance when the call begins. Jazz shoes or sneakers and comfortable clothing. Some may be asked to stay and sing after all have danced. Please prepare 16 bars of a contemporary musical theater song or pop song. Bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided.

Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.


Link to the original page

What do you know - another Addams Family vs. Munsters Poll

Apparently, the question of which television spook family is better--the Addams Family or the Munsters--is one that people are asking the whole internet over. I suppose this question is especially fitting for a blog called "Pop Culture Battles: When Pop Culture Icons meet head to head."

For anyone interested in voting, this poll even has a nice visual aid. It appears that the Addamses are in the lead at the moment.

VOTE in the The Addams Family vs The Munsters Poll

The Addams Family VS. The Munsters Poll

The Adams Family or The Munsters? Which do you think is the Definitive Monster Family?

Here's your chance to vote!

Follow the link to the 'Which is the definitive monster family' Poll. Voting is done on the left-hand side of the following site:

Vote here!

Thing For Sale: The Real Thing

March 15th and 16th, Thing, the prop used in the Addams Family movies, will be up for auction, along with other items including the hat belonging to the Wicked Witch of the West in 'The Wizard of Oz,' Superman's movie outfit, Houdini's straitjacket, the gun that Killed Lee Harvey Oswald, and many other pieces of history.

The items will be actioned off at the Palms Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but items can also be bought online.

Schedule

* Saturday, March 15, 2008
11am: Session One - Movies
4pm: Session Two - Movies (continued)
* Sunday, March 16, 2008
11am: Session One - John F. Kennedy, Houdini, Music
4pm: Session Two - Television, Bob Mackie, History, Icons, Political Cartoons

Public Preview

* Wednesday, March 12, 2008: 1pm to 9pm
* Thursday, March 13, 2008: 11am to 9pm
* Friday, March 14, 2008: 1pm to 9pm


Visit Guernsey’s Pugliese Pop Culture Collection Website

Photo and info from nydailynews.com.

Fester and Wednesday Take It Off in the Name of Anti-Art

Fester and Wednesday pose as semi-nude models at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-art School.

Check out Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-art School Homepage for over twenty photos of the event.
There are even a few glimpses of the rest of the family taking part.

"The Emerging Lurch Movement."

Monsters everywhere question their monsterdom. Addams Family's Lurch is leading the movement.

"The whole point of this is that each of us must figure out for his or her or its self what it means to be a monster" said Lurch. "We don't try to give all of the answers. Each one must find his or her or its own path, and come to his or her or its own conclusions. Is that messy thinking? Absolutely, but we cherish the messiness. Doing monstrology is messy business. I don't think we can simply systematize a whole philosophy like some try to do.

Read more at: Frustrated Monsters Everywhere Join the "Emerging Lurch" Movement

Addams Family Resort and Casino... That Never Was

Here's a real tease for fans. vegastodayandtomorrow.com has this listed in an article called "Dream Projects Which Were Never Built."

Their description is as follows:
"Addams Family Resort and Casino
Aimed directly at the baby-boomer demographic, The Addams Family Resort and Casino was another (really bad, ok, laughable) idea."
Hmm, not very flattering. See more Vegas projects that never were at
Vegas DREAMS Part 2

Horror Incorporated: Addams Family Spoof

Lesbian Version of the Addams Family Set to be filmed?

Here is some news that may make a lot of fans look twice. Well, this little tidbit has been confirmed as false. Though, concept certainly would have been interesting. cube_166 of livejournal originally reported the following:

A Lesbian version of the Addams Family is set to be filmed next year. The Addams Family has always been a favorite of lesbians everywhere but many lesbians have wished that the program might be a little more lesbian friendly. In response the BBC Commissioner, Sir Cubics MacLesbotrope has decided to totally revamp the traditional format. The cast list is as follows:

• Gomez, the head of the family, will be played by Portia De Rossi.


• Morticia, her wife, will be played by Lucy Liu.


• Wednesday, the scheming and sombre daughter of the family, will be played by Michelle Rodriguez.


• Pugsley, the slow witted but enthusiastic daughter of the family will be played by Paris Hilton.


• Aunt Fester, the one that I’ve forgotten all useful information about, will be played by Christina Aguilera.


• Thing, the disembodied hand scrabbling around performing tasks for the family, will be played by Ellen DeGeneres.


• Lurch, the ghoulish servant of the family, will be played by Angelina Jolie.


• Cousin Itt, the family’s hairy cousin, will be played by Russell Brand.

Upon being asked about the accuracy of this info, cube_166 replied: "Sorry, as awesome as that would be it isn't going to happen. To my knowledge at least. When I said it contains some actual facts I may have been exaggerating a bit."

Cousin Itt's Car on Display

The 1960 Messerschmitt KR-200 was made by Messerschmitt AG, a German aircraft company that built warplanes during World War II. Barred from producing aircraft after the war, the company switched to cars. A little trivia: The film Brazil featured a Messerschmitt and Cousin Itt drove one in the Addams Family comics.

Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum Homepage

Read about the Museum at wired.com

Ringtone: Lurch's "You rang?"

Have Lurch let you know when you have a call!

Listen and download: "You rang?" Ringtone

Addams Family Homecoming Float

CHS #1 Class of 2008: Addams Family Homecoming Float

Addams Family Pigs?

Unfortunately, I don't have any information on these. They definitely qualify as kooky, though.

Georgia Students make Addams Family themed Science Project

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