“O’Hara made being unreasonable hilarious, and you can see a lot of Moira’s DNA in her big-screen breakthrough performance as Winona Ryder’s self-involved stepmother Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice. Arkin compares O’Hara’s turn to the Wicked Witch in The Wizard Of Oz, because ‘the entire movie hinges on how over-the-top committed her performance is.’” – WBUR Arts & Culture, 08/18/2026