Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the professor talks about the government's propaganda efforts, his face becomes heavy. His brooding eyes are cast downward, his mouth grows sulky. But not because of the coffee, which he insists is "quite good." What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence, at the next table, of a local Communist official. "They say he is honest," says the professor. "They say that he doesn't have a crooked bone in his body. Maybe so, but I am certain those bones are held together by crooked...
...MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children...
...therefore is all the more disappointing that this project coordinated by an award-winning director and staffed by a mostly stellar cast fails to live up to its promise and its potential. In Country is burdened by a badly written screenplay and a poor performance by co-star Emily Lloyd. Ultimately, the best of intentions and outstanding performances by co-star Bruce Willis and a very capable supporting cast are not enough for In Country to fulfill its potential as a true and meaningful commentary on an important and ongoing American experience...
Then, out of the ashes, a renaissance of sorts. For the 1986-87 season, Michaels pieced together a cast that finally took hold and is now starting its fourth season together. Only one of them -- the silky, moonfaced Jon Lovitz, creator of the pathological-liar character -- seems to capture the old spirit: like Belushi or Aykroyd or Radner, he gets laughs by simply showing up onstage. Still, there's plenty of talent on hand: Dana Carvey, a pixieish comic with devilish impressions of George Bush and Jimmy Stewart; Victoria Jackson, a ditsily appealing blond; and the sparkling, versatile Jan Hooks...
...long time coming, but an ethnic rainbow is finally sweeping across the fashion and advertising industries -- and brightening them considerably. The blond, blue-eyed ideal is out, diversity is in, and the concept of beauty is growing as wide as the world. The new cast of faces is appearing not only in ads aimed at specific ethnic groups but in mainstream advertising as well. Revlon's Most Unforgettable Woman of 1989, chosen in a search across the U.S., is Mary Xinh Nguyen, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American from California. Such companies as Du Pont, Citibank and Delta Air Lines...