Alice left an indelible mark on American TV. Based on a relatively minor Martin Scorsese film, the weekly 30-minute sitcom followed the day-to-day of a widowed mom (played by Linda Lavin) who experienced car trouble in Arizona and never left. Nearly five decades after its 1976 debut, all but two of the original Alice cast members have died. Who’s still alive?
What was ‘Alice’ about? ‘Alice’ cast portrait on Jan. 1, 1979 | CBS via Getty Images
Before marrying Donald Hyatt and becoming a mom, Alice Spivak was a lounge singer in Newark, New Jersey. After her husband died in a trucking accident, she loaded up her station wagon and set her sights on Los Angele, hoping to revive her career. Fortunately for sitcom viewers, the newly inspired chanteuse and her adolescent son, Tommy, only made it as far as Phoenix before their car broke down. Intending a temporary stay, Alice rented an...
What was ‘Alice’ about? ‘Alice’ cast portrait on Jan. 1, 1979 | CBS via Getty Images
Before marrying Donald Hyatt and becoming a mom, Alice Spivak was a lounge singer in Newark, New Jersey. After her husband died in a trucking accident, she loaded up her station wagon and set her sights on Los Angele, hoping to revive her career. Fortunately for sitcom viewers, the newly inspired chanteuse and her adolescent son, Tommy, only made it as far as Phoenix before their car broke down. Intending a temporary stay, Alice rented an...
- 3/19/2023
- by Kaanii Powell Cleaver
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Alice Spivak, a veteran acting teacher and dialogue coach who appeared in such films as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Please Give and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, died Nov. 9, her family announced. She was 85.
Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.
“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.
A teacher for more ...
Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.
“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.
A teacher for more ...
- 12/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Alice Spivak, a veteran acting teacher and dialogue coach who appeared in such films as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Please Give and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, died Nov. 9, her family announced. She was 85.
Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.
“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.
A teacher for more ...
Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.
“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.
A teacher for more ...
- 12/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yvonne Rainer’s artistic output is a wellspring of innovation and singularity. In 1962, she co-founded the Judson Dance Theater and created new worlds with experimental, expressive movement that stripped dance of its spectacular nature in favor of creating a new language through the human body. But as daring as her choreography happened to be, she found the end result limiting at the time and looked for other outlets of expression. This is how Rainer came to filmmaking, and she took what she learned from dance to once again trail-blaze a path for her voice — this time in the landscape of art films in New York from the ’70s onward. To celebrate her work, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is offering a rare glimpse into the filmography of Rainer with a retrospective spanning her entire career, as well as influences, from July 21-27.
In the late ’60s, Rainer began infusing...
In the late ’60s, Rainer began infusing...
- 7/21/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Garrett Morris began his career as a singer alongside Harry Belafonte and in Broadway musicals like "Show Boat" and "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death." He studied at Hb Studios with Alice Spivak and Uta Hagen herself. He earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his dramatic turn in the 2001 movie "Jackpot." Yet he will forever be known as one of the original cast members of "Saturday Night Live," where he created such characters as Dominican baseball player Chico Escuela, who spoke only limited English, and the president of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, who would "translate" for people by screaming.Morris is currently earning laughs on the CBS comedy "2 Broke Girls," where he plays Earl, the cashier at the Brooklyn diner where the title characters work. In addition, he owns and operates the Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles, where he can be...
- 4/2/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Jenelle Riley)
- backstage.com
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