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Lisa Loring, who starred as the original Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966, has recently left the world. She was 64. Loring was just six years old when she rose to fame with her role of Wednesday. Loring’s daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, confirmed the reports this weekend that her mother died of a stroke on Saturday. Foumberg recenty said in the statement, “She went peacefully with both her daughters holding her hands.” Meanwhile, Laurie Jacobson, a friend, also confirmed the death on Facebook. Laurie…

Lisa Loring, the actress who played Wednesday Addams in the classic TV adaptation of The Addams Family, has died. She was 64. Loring died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter. “She went peacefully with both her daughters holding her hands,” she said. Loring is best known for her turn as the morbid, pig-tailed Wednesday in ABC’s black comedy…

Iconic cinematographer Owen Roizman, best known for shooting visual pieces like `The Addams Family` and `The Exorcist` has passed away aged 86. According to Variety, a US-based news outlet, Roizman received five Oscar nominations, for `The French Connection`, `The Exorcist`, `Network`, `Tootsie`, and the 1994 Western `Wyatt Earp`. In 2017, he received an honorary Academy Award for his achievements in the industry. In addition to his Oscar nominations, Roizman received an Emmy nomination for his cinematography (using…

Wednesday fans are rejoicing at the news that the hit Netflix series was given the go-ahead for a new season. While new fans may be most curious as to which Nevermore Academy students are going to be kissing each other (and who might be trying to destroy them all) in the second season of the dark fantasy franchise, OG Addams fans have got their minds on one question: Which actors from the original 1990s Barry Sonnenfeld movies will be following in Christina Ricci’s footsteps to feature (or at least cameo) in the…

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Screenshot: NetflixReviews of Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off Wednesday have been mixed, but there’s one thing everyone could agree on: Jenny Ortega’s unapologetically goofy dance scene was amazing. Unfortunately, notice I said “could”—your enthusiasm might wane upon learning she filmed the scene while having the coronavirus.If you’ve leapt to the assumption that Ortega kept mum about her illness in order to keep shooting, brazenly endangering her co-stars and crew, please leap back. As Ortega revealed in an interview…

Let’s hear some Wednesday music.Image: NetflixWhen you think of The Addams Family, odds are the first thing you think of is its theme song: “They’re creepy and they’re kooky/mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky/the Addams family,” snap, snap, etc. And so one might think the reveal of the credits sequence for Wednesday, the upcoming Addams-inspired show coming to Netflix, could create that same kind of recognition.That’s not the case. No one is snapping at the end of any of this music,which was written by…

Screenshot: NetflixJust in time for spooky season, NYCC got a little visit from our favorite member of the Addams family. Tim Burton’s Wednesday series from Netflix stars Jenna Ortega in the title role, with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzman as Gomez and more filling out the cast including Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci (in a mysterious role). The show follows Wednesday as she sleuths a supernatural mystery when she steps into the hallowed halls of Nevermore Academy. “Wednesday is the classic outsider,…

Screenshot: NetflixOn Wednesdays we wear black and watch the latest behind the scenes featurette for Tim Burton’s Netflix series centering on Wednesday Addams. In it, the master of cinematic oddities like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands discusses Wednesday star Jenna Ortega’s take on the classic Charles Addams character. “Wednesday is the classic outsider, obviously. She sees things very black and white, mainly black,” Burton says in the video, which you can watch below.“In the past incarnations it’s been very…