New York Times compares Ellen Feiss to Buster Keaton
Apparently the New York Times editors just got caught up on their Wired magazine reading and decided to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19ELLE.html"; target="_blank">weigh in</a> on the Ellen Feiss craze.
[quote]... her slowly raised eyebrows speak volumes and her shrug when confronting the hungry PC is a moment worthy of Buster Keaton.<hr></blockquote>
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[quote]... her slowly raised eyebrows speak volumes and her shrug when confronting the hungry PC is a moment worthy of Buster Keaton.<hr></blockquote>
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Apple Computer has a hit on its hands. Not its elegant iMac desktop machines or the lustworthy iPod music player ? those are old news. This hit is a television ad featuring a slow-talking, engaging teenager, Ellen Feiss, who describes her decision to use Macintosh computers after a Windows PC ate her homework.
"It was, like, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep," she says, "and then, like, half of my paper was gone." She characterizes the experience, over all, as a "bummer."
The advertisement is one of a series of quirky ads in Apple's "switch" campaign. Directed by the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, each commercial presents a happy Apple convert against a stark white background talking about the decision to switch from Windows. Ms. Feiss's is one of three new ads that were introduced at the MacWorld New York trade show last month and have not been broadcast. But the ads are available on the Apple Web site, at apple.com/switch.
Ms. Feiss has already gained a cult following among Internet viewers, who have created a flurry of Web sites devoted to her. Some are charmed by her slackerly expressiveness ? her slowly raised eyebrows speak volumes and her shrug when confronting the hungry PC is a moment worthy of Buster Keaton. The fans also gush over her teenagery upward intonation: "I'm Ellen Feiss? And I'm a student?"
Commentary from visitors to the Ellen Feiss section of the GloriousNoise, an online music magazine, include multiple declarations of virtual crushes. "I am attracted to Ellen Feiss," one mooned. "I am around her age, so it's O.K."
Other fans simply debate whether her delivery suggests that she is, to put it bluntly, drugged, claiming that her speech is slightly slurred and she seems more out of it than simply being a teenager would account for.
Among the Feiss sites, some have digitally altered images from the ad to include takeoffs on Apple slogans, including "Think stoned." Wired News said Ms. Feiss was "quickly becoming a Web celebrity but not necessarily for reasons that would please the advertiser."
Apple declined to talk about Ms. Feiss, except to say that she is a teenager, that she is not an actress and that the company preferred to discuss the message of the ads and not how they were made or the people in them. She was, the company said, on vacation with her family and not reachable for comment.
Source: NYTimes.com
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This NYT registration bit is wholly annoying. Someone please post the story text for those of us who like to keep even our Yahoo mail spam free!
I don't want to bother creating a junk account for this stuff. I've don it a couple of times and I always forget my pass/login cause I don't use it enough between wiping out my cookie files.
Please, don't post these stories unless your going to post the whoile text.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The New York Times doesn't send SPAM, or share your contact info. It's not an article on some small, questionable news site that you'll only ever look at once, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who will attest that it's SPAM-free.
<strong>The New York Times doesn't send SPAM, or share your contact info. It's not an article on some small, questionable news site that you'll only ever look at once, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who will attest that it's SPAM-free.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yup! The Times has been my paper since I moved to the US eight years ago and it's still a daily read. IMO, NYTimes.com is by far the best news site on the web. Too bad that they've started to use pop-up and pop-under ads! But definitely no spam from the Times.
BTW: Instad of being paranoid about spam, get a good e-mail program and set up some good filters! (I like Eudora, which catches close to 100% of the dozens of spam messages I get every day.) You don't stay at home all day, just because you could get hit by a car, either. Right?
Back on topic: It cracks me up to see how these web personality cults take off, and often end up hitting the mainstreet press.
Escher
Excuse me while I tape E!'s Anna Nichole Smith Show....