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  • Christina Ricci Channels Morticia Addams in Photoshopped Pic–Not

    Christina Ricci made headlines this week when fans thought she dressed up as The Addams Family matriarch, Morticia Addams. The photo of Ricci in the low cut, sexy black gown went viral.

    It turns out it wasn’t Christina Ricci at all–but rather a photoshopped picture of Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams.

    Christina Ricci’s head was photoshopped onto Anjelica Huston’s body–and the plunging neckline was deepened to make her appear even more alluring.

    Both Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci starred in the film version of The Addams Family, based on the 1960s TV show of the same name. Ricci played Wednesday Addams in the film and its sequel, Addams Family Values.

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    Although Christina Ricci enjoyed her time as a child star in The Addams Family, she believes the role stood in her way when she sought other roles in later years.

    “I think that I’ve been very lucky that none of these images or impressions I’ve left on people have been bad ones really,” she said about a year ago during an interview with Parade magazine. “People love Wednesday, but I would love that character too, so I’ve never really attempted to shake any of the stuff.”

    “I’ve always been very lucky to have characters that people really love. I think about some people that can’t shake really bad images and I’m glad I avoided them,” she added.

    Would you have realized that wasn’t really Christina Ricci dressed up as Morticia Addams if you weren’t told it was a photoshopped picture?

  • Anjelica Huston Releases Memoir

    Anjelica Huston recently released her memoir, “A Story Lately Told” and it is already a hit. According to USA Today, the memoir will be a two-volume biography that will detail Huston’s career as a model and an actress as well as her childhood and family life.

    Huston became an actress as a young adult and started in several films that were directed by her father. This often caused a strain in their relationship, and Huston says that she often felt like she was disappointing her father with her acting abilities.

    It seemed to me that he didn’t want me to be who I was,” she said. “And that was very difficult…. I felt at that time that he didn’t like me, he didn’t like who I was, he didn’t like the way I dressed, the way I looked. He was very critical of all of that.”

    Huston went on to say that has time went on, she realized her father was equally as hard on other actors in his films and felt less-bothered by his criticism towards her. Huston has starred in “Prizzi’s Honor,”“The Postman Always Rings Twice,” and the “Addams Family.”

    Huston said that although the first volume really dives into the struggles between her and her father, her second book will talk more about her relationship with actor Jack Nicholson. She did not say when the second book will be released.

    Image from Wikimedia Commons.

  • Anjelica Huston Spills Some Secrets In New Memoir

    Anjelica Huston has led a fascinating life, and she’s chosen to play characters who dig into our subconscious and stay there long after the movie is over. With films like “The Grifters”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, and two Wes Anderson creations under her belt, she’s led a long and successful career that didn’t hinge on her father’s famous name. In fact, in her new memoir, Huston says she deliberately shied away from writing too much about her dad because he always held the spotlight, and she wanted to be able to shine some of it on her mom.

    “She was incredibly beautiful. She was an ex-ballerina,” said Huston on “CBS This Morning”. “One of the pleasures of writing this book was talking about my mother, because my dad gets a lot of attention and my mother really deserved it. She was incredibly special, very beloved to me and I lost her early. So it’s important to me to be able to talk about her.”

    In “A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York”, Huston talks about growing up as the daughter of a famous director to become an “It Girl” model and later, an actress.

    “I think a lot of actors and indeed a lot of artists spend alone time when they’re little,” she said. “Not necessarily unhappy, but time spent in contemplation and I grew up in the west of Ireland, which was quite a remote place and my best friend was the mirror … I was accused of vanity, but I think children really look into the mirror to see who they are.”

    One thing she does not talk about is her relationship with Jack Nicholson, with whom she lived for seventeen years. In her interview with Gayle King, however, she did say that Nicholson draws people to him in a way that very few people can match.

    “He’s a fascinating man and people like to know details,” she said. “Men love Jack almost as much as women love Jack.”

    The memoir is part one of a two-part book series.

    Image: Wikimedia Commons