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
YouTube can start choreographing its touchdown dance. The video-streaming website’s parent company Google has closed a multi-year deal with the NFL to exclusively distribute NFL Sunday Ticket.
It’s one of the crown jewels in sports streaming rights and the latest sign that, even for live sports, streaming — and thus not linear TV — is the future. Despite other tech behemoths like Apple and Amazon both circling (an individual with knowledge told IndieWire the Google deal was for seven years and is in the range of the previously reported 2 billion+ annual asking price the NFL sought for Sunday Ticket), YouTube is the destination that made the most sense for the popular package.
“Sunday Ticket is definitely the golden prize in sports streaming. It draws more than anything else…It does it in a way that follows the sort of migratory patterns that sports fans are increasingly following today,” Rachel Nichols,...
It’s one of the crown jewels in sports streaming rights and the latest sign that, even for live sports, streaming — and thus not linear TV — is the future. Despite other tech behemoths like Apple and Amazon both circling (an individual with knowledge told IndieWire the Google deal was for seven years and is in the range of the previously reported 2 billion+ annual asking price the NFL sought for Sunday Ticket), YouTube is the destination that made the most sense for the popular package.
“Sunday Ticket is definitely the golden prize in sports streaming. It draws more than anything else…It does it in a way that follows the sort of migratory patterns that sports fans are increasingly following today,” Rachel Nichols,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
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