Word: playten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sulky Bob Dylan (Christopher Guest), lurking offstage like Achilles in his tent, comes bounding before the spotlight when fistfuls of greenbacks are offered. The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger. The mimicking of motorcycle addicts and musicians so stoned that they hold onto their mike stands as if they were swaying lampposts is all well-etched commentary, held together by an endearingly bumbling announcer (John Belushi) who sometimes cannot read the slips in his hand...
...sized dinner dumpling. In another room, her stomach-sore husband gurgles his pained compliments, downs a fizzing glass of Alka-Seltzer and returns to hear her plans for the morrow. "Marshmallowed meatballs," she exclaims. "Poached oysters!" He does an about-face for more analgesic. The spot sent Actress Alice Playten on to richer fare in the theater, and at least one publication printed her recipes for marshmallowed meatballs and other specialties...
...drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television. These days, many a viewer is tempted to leave his set during the first half of The Brady Bunch, fix a sandwich, pour a beer and then hurry back to watch these entertaining dramas in miniature. Actress Alice Playten, for example, has become nationally famous as the bride in the Alka-Seltzer ad who lies in bed breathlessly reliving the triumph of her first home-cooked meal-particularly a single, monumental dumpling. Behind her back, the uncomfortable husband surreptitiously gulps a fizzy glassful ("Is it beginning to rain, dear...
...Alice Playten (nee Plotkin), 22, has emerged as one of Broadway's most felicitous singing actresses. She is best known for her role as the young bride who cooks the tumescent dumpling and muses about marshmallowed meatballs in a much remarked Alka-Seltzer commercial. She grew up-or at least to 4 ft. 10½ in.-in Brooklyn's Flatbush and in Queens. Dance classes at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School led, at the age of eleven, to a singing role in Wozzeck, a solo curtain call and a New York Times review commending the "crushing irony...