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Beetlejuice: Alec Baldwin’s Plaid Flannel Shirt and Khakis
Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice (1988)
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Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland, hardware store owner and model hobbyist
Connecticut, Spring 1987
Film: Beetlejuice
Release Date: March 30, 1988
Director: Tim Burton
Costume Designer: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
Beetlejuice is a spooky season favorite for many, so even if the concept of Alec Baldwin crashing his car feels a little too real for a certain tree in the Hamptons, let’s celebrate Halloween with newlydeads Adam and Barbara Maitland.
Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) are looking forward to a stress-free sojourn in their small-town Connecticut home when their two-week staycation becomes a 125-year haunting after dying when their Volvo station wagon crashes through the side of the covered Winter River Bridge. Continue reading
The Beetlejuice Striped Suit
Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice (1988)
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Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, boorish “bio-exorcist”
Connecticut, Summer 1987
Film: Beetlejuice
Release Date: March 30, 1988
Director: Tim Burton
Costume Designer: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Background
Happy Halloween!
As delightfully and unapologetically weird as its director, Beetlejuice was Tim Burton’s follow-up to his directorial debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The darkly comic story about a recently deceased couple summoning an unprincipled poltergeist was developed by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, and Larry Wilson, with Burton channeling the cheap B-movies of decades past in his interpretation that balanced humor and horror.
In less than a decade of screen roles, Michael Keaton had already established a range of versatility between zany comedy (Night Shift) and thoughtful drama (Clean and Sober) before he took on the outlandish quasi-title role as the uh, well, Julliard-trained Betelgeuse. Continue reading
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