![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, everyone already knows Wednesday Addams-at least, they think they do. “It tells you everything you need to know about her.” “It’s perfect,” Kevin Miserocchi, an old friend of Addams’s and now director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, tells Vanity Fair of Wednesday’s unconventional moniker. While he struggled with some, like Pugsley (formerly “Pubert,” a crass impossibility for television in 1964), the name Wednesday-a nod to the child full of woe from the nursery rhyme-stuck from the moment of suggestion. Only as his imagined family was headed to television screens, did Addams name his characters. For roughly a quarter of a century, Wednesday Addams was the sullen nameless daughter in a recurring New Yorker cartoon drawn by Charles “Chas” Addams. ![]()
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