here’s a scene in the 1993 movie — the antic sequel to the earlier smash hit showcasing the ghoulish clan who reside at 001 Cemetery Lane — in which Gomez, played by Raul Julia, twirls Anjelica Houston’s Morticia around in a tango so intense that it literally catches fire. To say that Julia is attacking the role would be something of an understatement: his eyes pop, his legs skitter, he catches a knife in his teeth, and he even works in a bit of dervish-style paso doble business with a scarlet cape. He looks like he’s living out the Addams credo, — ‘We gladly feast on those who would subdue us’. “Gomez gives me the opportunity to be as theatrical as I want to be,” Julia said at the time. “He sings, he dances, he sword-fights. I’ve always wanted to
