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Well, we already identified the two women pictured fighting in the commercial, so it seemed only fair to give equal ink to the actresses who portrayed the disgruntled and disgusted companions of the day-dreaming males. These are the women one ad critic referred to in a biting column on the commercial: The perpetrators of this abomination try to buy some sociopolitical cover by showing two other women -- "normal" ones, disgusted with the display. This flimsy gambit to create the illusion of self-deprecation is as transparent as the Bikini Team creators' explanation of "parody" a decade ago. Amazingly, all of our searches on the Net netted zero
results -- nada, squat, zilch. We could have stopped there, but we took this as a personal challenge to our resourcefulness and set out to meet it head on. We mulled over our options, and decided it was time to bring out the heavy artillery -- the power of the press. This was an unconventional question, so we resorted to unconventional (for us) means to answer it -- we started an email campaign asking for information. We emailed reporters and Miller Lite personnel and posted to message boards, then we sat back and waited for some results. We didn't have to wait long. Bob Garfield, a columnist for Advertising Age and author of the above quotation, came through for us, emailing the phone number of the PR contact for
Miller. Twenty-four hours and a number of phone calls later, we had your info -- the blonde is Kirsten Gronfield, and the Asian woman is Ellie Weisbaum. Searches on the two women turned up a few scattered mentions here and there. Kirsten, a Minnesota native, is a relative newcomer to TV and performs sketch comedy. Ellie is a model and actress based in L.A. With the stir the current Miller Lite spot is creating, we may see more of these two women in the near future.
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