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| birth_place = [[United States]] |
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| nationality = [[United States]] |
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| occupation = [[Television personality]] |
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| years_active = 2002 |
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| known_for = Early [[OS X|Mac OS X]] adapter |
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| notable_works = [[Switch (ad campaign)|Apple Switch ad campaign]] |
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'''Ellen Feiss''' (born {{circa}}1987<!--see discussion page before changing birth year-->) is an American who became an [[List of Internet phenomena|Internet phenomenon]] after her 2002 [[Errol Morris]]-directed [[Television advertisement|television commercial]] for [[Apple Inc.|Apple's]] [[Apple Switch ad campaign|Switch campaign]] grew into a cult hit.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news | first = John | last = Schwartz | title = Out-of-It Eyebrow Lift Gives Apple a Superstar | date = 2002-08-19 | work = The New York Times | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19ELLE.html}}</ref> In the commercial, the then-14-year-old<ref name="flux">[http://www.theflux.tv/files/podcasts/fluxradio27.mp3 Interview with Ellen Feiss on The Flux] (mp3)</ref> [[high school]] student complained that while using a [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Personal computer|PC]] to author a paper, the computer experienced a [[glitch]] causing half of the paper to become unexpectedly deleted. Subsequently, she was forced to retype the deleted portions. |
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Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of [[psychoactive drug|illicit drugs]] during the filming of the commercial, due to her slurred speech and disoriented eyes.<ref name="wired">{{cite news| url = http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,54333,00.html | title = Apple 'Switch' Star Flies High | last = Kahney | first = Leander | work = Wired News | date=August 10, 2002}}</ref> Feiss denied these claims in an interview with ''[[The Brown Daily Herald]]'' and noted that she was only taking [[Benadryl]], an allergy medication with [[sedative]] properties. She ascribed the "drugged" behavior to a combination of the effect of the Benadryl, together with exhaustion (she said that her ad was filmed at ten o'clock in the evening).<ref name="brown">[http://www.cootey.com/ellen/ellen.feiss.interview.pdf Copy of ''Brown Daily Herald'' interview] from [http://www.cootey.com/ellen.feiss.soundbytes.html Ellen Feiss Soundbytes] (original is no longer available) ([[PDF]])</ref> She also explained how she had come to appear in the commercial: |
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{{Cquote|I'm friends with the son of the director, [[Errol Morris]]. I'm friends with his son [[Hamilton_Morris|Hamilton]]. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.<ref name="brown"/>}} |
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A second ad, in which Feiss talks about the virtues of her [[PowerBook G4]], was circulated extensively on the Internet.<ref name="commercial2">{{YouTube|7FKx8StsWMk|"Unrelease PowerBook G4 Ad"}}</ref> |
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Feiss's popularity grew to the point where she was offered appearances on both [[David Letterman]]'s and [[Jay Leno]]'s late night shows, both of which she turned down.<ref name="brown"/> |
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In September 2005, Feiss made her movie acting debut in the [[France|French]] [[short film]] ''[[Bed & Breakfast (2006 film)|Bed and Breakfast]]''. The directors, Martin Beilby and Loïc Moreau, had seen Feiss's Apple commercial and decided to approach Feiss herself, who accepted the role despite having no formal acting experience.<ref name="flux"/><ref name="bnb">{{cite web | url = http://www.bnb-movie.com/news/index.php | title = ''Bed and Breakfast'' website (archived) | language = French, English | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070329065812/http://www.bnb-movie.com/news/index.php | archivedate = March 29, 2007}}</ref> |
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Feiss graduated from [[The Cambridge School of Weston]] in 2005. {{As of|2007|January}}, she was in college, and planning to major in either [[photography]] and [[video]] or [[women's studies]].<ref name="where_now?">[http://macenstein.com/default/2007/01/where-are-they-now-interview-with-switcher-girl-ellen-feiss/ Where are they now? Interview with "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss]</ref> |
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Feiss is the model for the heroine, Margot Durant, in [[Jacob Appel]]'s{{dn|date=July 2015}} 2011 novella, ''Vicarious Pleasures''.<ref>Interview with Appel, Spotlight (Chicago), Nov 2014</ref> |
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== See also == |
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* [[List of Internet phenomena]] |
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== References == |
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{{reflist}} |
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== External links == |
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* {{IMDb name|id=2326642|name=Ellen Feiss}} |
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* [http://macenstein.com/default/archives/509 Interview with Feiss] on [http://www.macenstein.com/default/ Macenstein] from January 2007 |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFP6BK_rRH0&feature=fvsr Extracts from Ellen Feiss's movie Bed and Breakfast] |
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|NAME= Feiss, Ellen |
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|DATE OF BIRTH={{circa}}1987 |
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[[Category:1987 births]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]] |
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[[Category:American child actresses|Feiis, Ellen]] |
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[[Category:Apple Inc. advertising]] |
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[[Category:American Internet celebrities]] |
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[[Category:Internet memes]] |
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