Word: casting
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...Justice Department announced Friday that he had voted for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, part of a growing trend of leading Republicans crossing party lines to endorse the Illinois senator. Charles Fried, a leading conservative thinker, cited McCain’s choice of running mate as the reason he cast his absentee ballot for Obama, who graduated from the Law School in 1991. Fried will also resign from his post on the McCain Campaign’s Justice Advisory Committee. “Professor Fried is concerned about the choice of Sarah Palin when the nation is in crisis...
...executive, Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, John Turturro as Willis’s agent, and Stanley Tucci as a writer trying to make a deal with Ben while seducing Ben’s ex-wife. Excluding De Niro, the rest of the star-studded cast is barely ever seen. Sean Penn is a major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes—which is just long enough for him to get shot, roll down a hill, and be shot again. De Niro’s acting, which normally dominates the screen with...
...truly inhabits Bush, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that he successfully depicts him over a span of 40 years. Playing the current president is undoubtedly intimidating, but Brolin makes a complex character out of a seemingly less-than-complicated man. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast falls into caricature. In particular, Thandie Newton’s Condoleezza Rice seems like an amateur “Saturday Night Live” impersonation...
...Cole, a young woman who is preparing to cast her very first vote-and who still won't disclose who it will be for - it was a rough introduction to modern campaign tactics. At the rally, Biden lauded her from the podium, and declared: "Our country cannot take four more years of this divisive politics." But for her part, Cole seemed like she would have been just as happy not to play her bit part in this election season. "It seems pretty nasty," she told me, and added: "I'm too young for all this...
...Heading the cast is Peter Mandelson, the co-architect of New Labour, recalled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the start of October from his post as E.U. Trade Commissioner, and installed in the House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch...