My Way of Life- Farewell Lily!
Lets face it, the Munsters was, for the most part, absurd and horribly written. The reason the show lives in in rerun eternity is the the stellar cast. Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis and Yvonne DeCarlo made that show. It took me some time to realize that the Munsters had flashes (perhaps accidental) of brilliance. Sure, the Addams Family were cool and bohemian, but they knew they were cool, and they were rich. The Munsters just wanted to be a NORMAL working class family and they had no idea how bizarre they appeared to others. The harder they tried to appear normal the weirder they were perceived. Sound familiar? How many of us have felt like a ‘Marilyn’ in a family of Munsters? I’m sure millions of Goth Girls are mourning the death of the exquisite Yvonne DeCarlo.
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