Word: casting
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...MacArthur "genius" grant, giving him a few hundred thousand dollars to pursue his theatrical dreams - will slowly break him over the rest of his long, increasingly demented life. Caden moves to Manhattan, rents a warehouse and in it constructs a smaller version of the city outside. Hiring a huge cast, he sets out to assemble an epic of ordinariness. His second wife, Claire (Michelle Williams), will be the star; the ever-loyal Hazel is his assistant. A stalker named Sammy (Tom Noonan) has got the job of portraying Caden; "I've been following you for 20 years," he tells...
...helped send the price of their oil plunging. "This is not like the 1970s," says Chalabi. "OPEC has become a price-taker, not a price-maker." Still, if taking a couple of million barrels a day off the market has its desired effect, OPEC will once again be cast among the villains of the current economic downturn...
...This year’s cast is smaller than those of past years. The 2008 lineup includes accomplished performers like Steve Byrne, who has his own Comedy Central Happy Hour special, Jordan Carlos, nationally recognizable as Stephen Colbert’s “black friend Alan,” and Julian McCullough, who regularly appears on VH1’s Best Week Ever...
...Harvard students, many of us cast our lots with the Red Sox, or Celtics, or Patriots during our time here...
...organization's French managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being investigated for possible abuses of power. The findings of that inquiry - expected later this week - will not only shape the IMF's ability to navigate the world into a new, stable era of international trade, but they will also cast the fate of one of France's brightest political stars...