New Photos Added: JERRY LEWIS, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Liv Tyler, CLUTCH CARGO, Goldie Hawn, WHAT’S MY LINE?, Ernest Borgnine, etc.
July 7th, 2008 by Scott Marks
THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 5 Photos Added
Jerry Lewis’ THE BELLBOY (1960) - 8 Lobby Cards Added
BORGNINE IN BANLON!!!
Ernest Borgnine in The Split (1968) - 3 Color Stills Added
CLUTCH CARGO, with his pals Spinner & Paddlefoot! - 5 Photos Added
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The Addams Family’s Uncle Fester shows you how to watch a movie
April 2nd, 2008 by Scott Marks
No single cartoon, for that matter no single frame of celluloid best captures the spirit I bring with me to the movies.
That’s me at the end of Men of Boy’s Town when Pee-Wee’s little dog Bohunk gets flattened by an eight-wheeler or when a simple “Hiya” from the old Bambino allows crippled little Denny to walk in The Babe Ruth Story. Hell, I look this way at the end of Terms of Endearment.
This New Yorker magazine cartoon attached itself to me when I was a kid doing “research” on The Addams Family TV show. A local bookseller had a compilation of Charles Addams drawings which were much darker and more complex that their cutting edge small screen counterpart. Before long I had amassed a complete collection of first editions that I still consult whenever I feel the need of convulsive laughter.
The joke is that Uncle Fester finds humor in what makes others weep. I took the interpretation one step further. In my mind, Uncle Fester had a built-in bulls–t detector that instantly sees through narrative contrivance. While the pezzanovante lap up Hollywood’s maudlin goo, Fester sits with fingers pressed to his lower lip enjoying a private chuckle. Since 1990, not a week at the movies has passed where some cloying plot gambit hasn’t caught me duplicating this panel.
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