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Alice Playten
Alice Playten (''née'' Plotkin; August 28, 1947 – June 25, 2011) was an American actress known for her high-pitched, child-like voice. Life and career Born in New York City, Playten began her career in 1959 at age 11, playing Marie's young son in the Metropolitan Opera's original production of Alban Berg's ''Wozzeck''. Her Broadway credits included ''Gypsy'', ''Oliver!'', '' Henry, Sweet Henry'', '' Hello, Dolly!'', ''Rumors'', ''Seussical'', and '' Caroline, or Change''. Her many off-Broadway credits include ''Promenade'', '' The Last Sweet Days of Isaac'', '' Up from Paradise'', '' Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You'', ''First Lady Suite'', '' A Flea in Her Ear'', '' National Lampoon's Lemmings'', and '' Shlemiel the First''. Playten's screen credits include '' Ladybug Ladybug'' (1963), '' Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?'' (1971), '' California Dreaming'' (1979), ''Legend'' (1985), and '' I.Q.'' (1994). She wore heavy makeup and prosthetics in ''Legend'' to por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug's 1st Movie
''Doug's 1st Movie'' is a 1999 American animated comedy film based on the television series '' Doug''. Despite the film's title, it is the series finale of the show. Directed by Maurice Joyce, the film was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Jumbo Pictures with animation provided by Plus One Animation. It stars the regular television cast of Tom McHugh, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Constance Shulman, Frank Welker, Alice Playten, Guy Hadley, and Doris Belack. It was released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under its Walt Disney Pictures label on March 26, 1999; an accompanying ''Mickey Mouse Works'' short entitled ''Donald's Dynamite: Opera Box'' was also released with the film itself. The film received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, and no further films based on ''Doug'' were made. Plot BluffCo has been dumping waste into Lucky Duck Lake under the command of CEO Bill Bluff. This pollution creates a friendly creature that is discovered by Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug (TV Series)
''Doug'' is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures. It originally aired on Nickelodeon from August 11, 1991, to January 2, 1994, and on ABC from September 7, 1996, to June 26, 1999. The show focuses on the early adolescent life and zany hijinks of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington. Doug narrates each story in his journal, and the show incorporates many imagination sequences. The series addresses numerous topics, including trying to fit in, platonic and romantic relationships, self-esteem, bullying, and rumors. Many episodes center on Doug's attempts to impress his classmate and crush, Patti Mayonnaise. Jinkins developed ''Doug'' from drawings in his sketchbook that he created over the course of the 1980s. ''Doug'', a mostly autobiographical creation, was largely inspired by Jinkins's childhood growing up in Virginia, with most char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Metal (film)
''Heavy Metal'' is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his directorial debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of '' Heavy Metal'' magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum. The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from ''Heavy Metal'' magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Really Rosie
''Really Rosie'' is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is based on Sendak's books ''Chicken Soup with Rice'', ''Pierre'', ''One was Johnny'', ''Alligators All Around'' (which comprise 1962's ''The Nutshell Library''), and ''The Sign on Rosie's Door'' (1960). Sendak based the story on a demonstrative little girl who used to sing and dance on the stoop of her building, whom he observed while he was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn. The show follows a typical summer day in the life of the Nutshell Kids, a group of several neighborhood friends, including Pierre, Alligator, Johnny, and Chicken Soup from the ''Nutshell Library'' books, and Rosie and Kathy from ''The Sign on Rosie's Door''. Rosie, the self-proclaimed sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in a movie based on the exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life. A half-hour animated tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (and the 54th episode overall). It first aired on NBC in the United States on January 6, 1993. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry intended to meet his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. However, given the situation, he agrees to skip the movie and reschedule his act to the 11:00 slot. Jerry first heads to the earlier scheduled comedy act, only to learn that the act was scheduled for 9:15, not 9:50 as Jerry thought, and Buckles ended up filling his spot. Jerry then heads to the movie theater to inform his friends that he won't accompany them. Buckles insists on sharing the taxicab with Jerry, and irrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend (1985 Film)
''Legend'' is a 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film directed by Ridley Scott, written by William Hjortsberg, and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert and Annabelle Lanyon. The film revolves around Jack, a pure being who must stop the Lord of Darkness who plots to cover the world with eternal night. Despite its lack of commercial success and poor reception from critics, the film won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in 1985 for cinematographer Alex Thomson and was nominated for multiple awards: the Academy Award for Best Makeup; the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Saturn Award for Best Makeup; BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup Artist, and Best Special Visual Effects; DVD Exclusive Awards; and Youth in Film Awards (since renamed Young Artist Awards). Since its premiere, reinforced by the 2002 release of the unrated Director's Cut, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Dreaming (1979 Film)
"California Dreamin" is a song written by John and Michelle Phillips in 1963 and first recorded by Barry McGuire. The best-known version is by the Mamas & the Papas, who sang backup on the original version and released it as a single in December 1965. "California Dreamin became a well-known example of the " California sound", and the 1960s counterculture era. It was certified three-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in June 2023 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2021, ''Rolling Stone'' placed the song at number 420 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. History The song was written in 1963 while John Phillips and Michelle Phillips were living in New York City during a particularly cold winter, and the latter was missing sunny California. John would work on compositions late at night and brought Michelle the first verse one morning. At the time, John and Michelle Phillips were members of the folk group the New Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?
''Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?'' (also known as ''Death of a Hooker'') is a 1971 film directed by Ernest Pintoff and starring comedian and actor Red Buttons and featuring Sylvia Miles, Conrad Bain, Alice Playten and Sam Waterston. Gary McFarland wrote the soundtrack music. The film was rated PG despite the fact that it dealt with topics including prostitution and murder. Since its original theatrical release, the film was released only on VHS (distributed by Video Gems in 1982), and is now out of print. Plot The plot revolves around the murder of a prostitute in a crime-ridden low-income city neighborhood. Dismayed by the general indifference the police and neighbors show toward the murder, a resident who knew the prostitute sets out to do his own investigation of the case. Cast *Red Buttons as Mickey Isador *Sylvia Miles as Christine *Alice Playten as Della Isador *Conrad Bain as Val Rooney *Dick Anthony Williams as Malthus *Sam Waterston as Alex Monte * David Doyle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybug Ladybug (film)
''Ladybug Ladybug'' is a 1963 American docudrama film directed by Frank Perry and written by Eleanor Perry. The film is a commentary on the psychological effects of the Cold War, the title deriving from the classic nursery rhyme. It marked the film debuts of William Daniels, Estelle Parsons and Jane Connell. The film was inspired by a ''McCall's'' magazine story by Lois Dickert (Lois Dickert Armstrong) about an actual incident at a California elementary school during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Plot One morning, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to accompany the pupils to their homes after a nuclear attack warning alarm sounds and the staff are unable to determine whether or not the alarm was false. One teacher and the children under her care walk through the countryside, with a slowly building sense of doom about what they believe to be the upcoming nuclear holocaust. Several of the children reach their homes; one girl cowers under a bed after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlemiel The First (musical)
''Shlemiel the First'' is a musical adaptation of the " Chelm stories" (including '' When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw'') of Isaac Bashevis Singer about the supposedly wise men of that legendary town, and a fool named Shlemiel. It was conceived and adapted by Robert Brustein, with lyrics by Arnold Weinstein and music based on traditional klezmer music and Yiddish theater songs by Hankus Netsky of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Zalmen Mlotek, who wrote additional music and arrangements, and served as the musical director of the original production. Singer had written a non-musical theatrical adaptation of the stories, ''Shlemiel the First'', which Brustein produced in 1974 when he was the artistic director of Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, and this served to provide the basic material for the musical. The musical was originally co-produced in 1994 by Brustein's American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the American Music Theatre Festival in Philad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
