Search Details

Word: addamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Joe Flaherty knows bad movies too; as Count Floyd, the seedy late-night host on the old SCTV comedy show, he used to introduce dreck like Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses. Playing the incompetent mad scientist in Maniac Mansion, Flaherty again shows a flair for sweet dimwittedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Elvira, for those of you are not familiar with this self-styled Mistress of the Dark, this cross between Morticia Addams and Moon Unit Zappa, she is the hostess of a syndicated TV show that features laughably egregious horror and sci-fi movies. She frequently interrupts the movies to offer...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Wicked Good Fun | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Carolyn Jones, 50, sultry, sinuous actress who played the ghoulamorous Morticia on television's The Addams Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 15, 1983 | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next