“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family!” and with these opening lyrics to the 1960s classic television sitcom, viewers were perfectly set up to what they were going to experience over the following thirty minutes of that original show, which mostly involved “normal” people encountering the delightful…
Tag: Bette Midler
The Stepford Wives: From Book to Screen
The term “Stepford Wife” entered the world’s lexicon shortly after author Ira Levin’s book was published back in 1972, and I’d say more people are familiar with the term and it’s meaning (i.e. a woman who seems to conform blindly to an old-fashioned subservient role in relation to her husband) than they are with the…