Post by Wol on Oct 11, 2006 17:03:42 GMT -4
Okay, I'm suddenly remembering another story about "Addams Family Values." If I'm remembering this correctly, there was some issue with the insurance to cover him because he was already ill, and there was some discussion of replacing him to save on the insurance costs, and Angelica Huston and Christina Ricci and basically everyone else said they would not do the movie without him, so the studio paid the insurance and shut up. And for some reason I'm recalling that it was the studio that was balking at paying the insurance, and not the producers - they were in the "We're not making the movie without Raul" camp. I'm not entirely sure this is a true story, but I just remembered it so thought I'd share to keep the thread going 
I'm nearly weeping, I still miss that man so much. He smoldered on-screen like no one else, and no one since. I loved him in the way underrated Moon over Parador, in which he played the bleached-blonde psychotic chief-of-police who forces a bit actor (Richard Dreyfuss) to fill in for the newly dead dictator of a banana republic country until a coup can be engineered. "Play the part, or I'll kill you." Hee!