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Friday, January 7. 2011Anniversaire de Charles Addams : ébauche de biographie ; semble complète, ne l'est pas.Joyeux anniversaire, Charles Addams. Charles Samuel Addams est né un dimanche 7 Janvier 1912, à Westfield, dans le New Jersey, fils du mariage de Grace M. Spears (1879 - 1943) et de Charles Huey Addams (1873 - 1932), ancien architecte naval devenu manager dans une entreprise de réparation ou de fabrication de pianos (?). Références et choses intéressantes :
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Thursday, January 6. 2011Nevermore!
Almost called that like the series of posts presumably on Addams, or in commemoration of him, but yeah.
Most of these articles have low correlation with him, poor dude being most known for his cartoons' adaptations than him or his cartoons. i'd show you that one Chas' cartoon with Poe thinking of possible animal saying "Nevermore!" but Addams' estate don't want these to go all over the Internet or something. Will I be in big troubles if I made some ASCII art out of it and posted it on my Gopherspace? Thought it'd interest people not in the know that John Astin played Edgar Allan Poe. Addams liked Poe much and here I am talking of Charles Addams in an article speaking not of him ; Astin said in Addams Family: An Evilution that everybody always do the Theme of the Original Series whenever he says he played Gomez. It's also him who played Professor Mortimer Grangreen in all these stories about killer tomatoes (think of it!) and Nelson Halliwell, director of a theatrical adaptation of Hamlet, in Tales of the Crypt's Top Billing (E05S03) episode, which got him nominated for an Ace Award. So, John Astin played Edgar Allan Poe, in Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight, being the only actor, a play directed by Alan Bergmann, written by Paul Day Clemens and Ron Magid, which music was written by Ian Freebairn-Smith and, evidently, unhappily,the play tour ended in 2004. Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight told you Poe's life through Poe's eyes, with lot of citations. Can't buy it anywhere! Not even the script! Still, its website is interesting: www.astin-poe.com "I feel that Poe, through his own tortured existence, gained deep insight into the nature of the universe, along with an intense love and appreciation for life itself. Through this play I want to share that impression with others." -- John Astin Or as we, french people, might say: « Je sens que Poe, à travers son existence torturée, a gagné une vision profonde de la nature de l'univers, ainsi qu'un amour intense et une appréciation pour la vie elle-même. À travers cette pièce je veux partager cette impression avec d'autres. » -- John Astin. Isn't that right everything is way cooler in French?
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Monday, January 3. 2011Charles Addams' birthday minus Four : pinballAgain, an article on the Addams Family. I'd like to speak of less-known Chas' cartoons, still, and those ones with extra-terrestrials. And these episodes of TV-shows The Addams Family, The New Addams Family as well as the animated TV cartoons where there are extra-terrestrials. Shit! The Addams Family flipper has been manufactured and produced in March 1992 by Midway Games, Inc. (once Midway Manufacturing, the people behind Mortal Kombat, now in bankruptcy) one year after they absorbed WMS Industries Inc.'s video games division, who got in 1988 from Bally Technologies the right to use the brandname Bally as they bought the Bally/Midway Manufacturing division dedicated to pinball; that's for all theses reasons that The Addams Family got produced under the brand Bally. With Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston (Gomez and Morticia in 1991 The Addams Family movie) voice-over, designed and programmed by Patrick M. Lawlor (designing), Larry DeMar (designing and programming, co-designer of arcade game Defender with Eugene Jarvis and of Jack*Bot with Barry Oursler and Jim Patla) and Mike Boon (programming) while John Krutsch (Jack*Bot, The Twillight Zone) was filling the technicals as well mechanicals needs and aspects. The music was composed by Christopher P. Granner (who did Pin*Bot theme, The Twillight Zone flipper music,produced by Midway as well, and the one of Pinball Magic from Capcom with Jeff Powell) and the artwork realised by John Youssi, who worked for IGT and maybe did the artwork of The Addams Family gambling machines, he did the packaging of Yoplait yoghurts and the magical covers of different books including R. L. Stine's. The Addams Family is based on Williams Pinball Controller system, who use a Motorola 6809 8-bits as main CPU, as the sound is managed both by main CPU and a ADSP-2105 d'Analog Devices, generated by Yamaha's YM2151 board as well as a DAC and encoded by the Harris HC55536. WPC systems run on an Apple OS. All this making me think there may be a way to use other programs or to program some others for the flipper, but that's not the subject. This was the only game produced with bot WPC system and Fliptronics I board. The Addams Family is then compatible with Fliptronics II board, which only added a diode bridge to ajust the flipper's voltage. The game offered to score higher than most of those precedently produced, its animations and game modes were really innovative. It was a big success, with 20 270 units sold on 20 750 produced. As the production ended, after The Addams Family broked every previous Bally flippers sales records, Midway Games Inc. produced 1000 others, the Gold or Special Collectors Edition. References : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(pinball) http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/01/03/diehard-gamefan-hall-of-fame-nomination-addams-family-pinball/ Differences between The Addams Family Gold and regular TAF pinballs http://www.fliptronics.com/ Official Fliptronics' website http://www.johnyoussi.com Official John Youssi website, partially in Flash, where he misspelled Addams Family « Adam's Family ». Just wrote it an email and he said his web designer will correct it and that he loved worked on this game as he was a big fan of the TV series. Can't believe he answered, and that fast! http://www.pinballnews.com/news/youssi.html John Youssi's interview where he doesn't talk about The Addams Family. http://www.flipperfrance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2460 Forums d'Hydrogenaudio : What makes a DAC better or worse?
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Sunday, January 2. 2011Chas Addams' Birthday minus Five : Jackpot!
I was writing an article, French only, on Chas Addams, but here is another article for the continuity.
There are slots and gambling machines based on the Addams Family, the first TV-Show and the movies, produced by International Game Corporation (IGT?), aking a minimal bet of 0.05$ or a tokens bet. There is the IGT Addams Family MegaJackpot based only on the original TV-Show, with John Astin voice-over along with original series music and asking for a minimal bet of 0.05$, and the IGT Addams Family Pachislo Skill Stop Slot Machine, based both on the 1964-1966 series and the 90's movies, playing the movies' music, John Astin voice-over and accepting tokens only. One of the winners on the IGT Addams Family Megajackpot asks to be called Debbie R. International Game Corporation apparently created other gambling machines based on The Addams Family, "Market Madness", "Pick to Win", "Fry Fester" and "Cousin Itt", all with John Astin's voice-over. There is another The Addams Family slot produced byt Barcrest. First two are IGTs, number two being IGT Addams Family Pachislo Skill Stop Slot Machine, last one is Barcrest. Références : http://www.casinos.org/slots/play-addams-family-slots-online IGT Gambling Machines. (source of first image) http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/copthorne2004/index.html Barcrest and IGT gambling machines. (images two and three) http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2000/apr/25/regulators-limit-kids-exposure-to-addams-family-sl/ http://www.ildado.com/nevada_casinos_las_vegas.html Worthopedia : IGT Addams Family Pachislo Skill Stop Slot Machine Buyable with 800 tokens included. First Nevada Jackpot on Addams Family Hits at Suncoast.
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Saturday, January 1. 2011Charles Addams' Birthday minus Six: Thing T. Thing, itselfThe Thing first appearance was in Charles Addams' 1954 book Homebodies. Well, that's not really true as that book is a collection of stuffs he did before for the New Yorker or TV Guide. One of Charles Addams' cartoons represents his family's mansion with a sign "Beware of the Thing", which was adapted in the original series while the remake (The New Addams Family) has a sign "Beware of Everything". There is also a second animated series, the one from 1992-1993, episode called "Beware of the Thing", now that I think of it. They say Thing T. Thing firstly had an all human body and was cut for the series, but I can't verity as I can't put my hand on a Homebodies copy. Some say that it (not Itt, the Thing) was Morticia's lover and they didn't foresee the fact that it'd still live after being separated from its now defunct owner. We suppose it's a reference to the legend of Main of Glory, which would be the hand of a hangman or a murdering hand, could open any door and if one made a candle out of the fat, amongst other things, of the once owner of the hand and fixated it to the hand, it immobilize anybody to whom you presented it. In the episode Thing is Missing of the original TV-Show as well as the remake, we can see a photography of Thing's parents, two hands. Thing had a little romance with Lady Fingers, engaged and promised to wait for her. Thing started in a box. He was then played by Ted Cassidy or some other member of the crew, mostly Jack Voglin, in the first series and as it will never end (yeah, scared as well that it'll be a cleany cleantsy clean Tim Burton movie, like some of those he did recently) I won't say it ended being played by Christopher Hart or Steven Fox. References: addamsfamily.wikia.com, The Unofficial Addams Family Web Site, Wikipedia, http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hand.html. Interesting stuffs: making fucking robotic hands, a thing at editors Springer (didn't read) about VS that by Interwebz magics became freely downloadable here, The Addams Family Characters: Uncle Fester at Books LLC (didn't read) and an author whose nom de plume is Uncle Fester (gotta read that), seeing the stuffs he speak of in his books I could link you Lucid-State Forum, but that would be dangerous. The rights to the image used in this post belongs to MGM Home Entertainment.
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