a few days ago i blogged about the abbott family video from the australian workers union describing it as the first viral video hit of the election. today the liberal party has pointed out that the addams family concept had been done …

dress yourself or tabletop: addams family sstyle. haunting metal sculptures you can take with you from tithi kutchamuchs secret friend family the wooden hoop on the deer head detaches to make a necklace the circle of rabbits and …

if leo tolstoy had seen the cartoons of chas. addams, he would have had to rethink his famous dictum, "all happy families are alike." gomez and morticia's misbegotten brood may have been creepy and kooky, but they were also happy, as the cartoons in the delightful anthology "the addams family: an evilution" attest.addams, born in 1912, sold his first cartoon to the new yorker in 1932, while he was still a student at the grand central school of art in manhattan. six years later, he began the addams family saga with a drawing of a cheerfully oblivious door-to-door salesman demonstrating a vacuum cleaner to early versions of morticia and lurch: "vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time and back saver. no well-appointed home should be without it."

send in the clowns – dont bother theyre here. they are all at the lunt-fontanne theatre on broadway where they are working overtime to make the addams family the laugh riot that it almost is.

"one gets the feeling from 'the addams family' that artistic inspiration pretty much ended with the pitch meeting."

fern siegel: stage door: the scottsboro boys, the addams family