Word: casting
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...Kuomintang, or KMT, won Taiwan's presidential election by a landslide, garnering 58% of the votes cast compared to 42% for his chief rival, Frank Hsieh of the rival Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP. "The end of this election is the beginning of change," Ma said in his victory address to a roaring crowd in Taipei...
...declaration by the Democratic National Committee that it would take away their convention delegates if they did so. (The Republican Party also penalized Florida and Michigan, but took away only half their delegates.) As a result of the DNC's warning, many Democrats chose not to vote-or to cast their ballots in the Republican race...
...movies come off like neutered versions of his strutting, crazily intense stage shows (available on the seven-disc DVD set Tyler Perry: The Plays). These are the source material for almost all his films. Onstage, you can see the author and his cast sweating to please a live audience, which hoots its disapproval of the naughty characters and its delight at all that vigor. Also, the shows are musicals, and it's during the singing that they really soar--Dreamgirls meets the Ebenezer Baptist Church choir, and the congregation's spirits raise the roof...
...insufficiently black. In these "recorded live" stage performances, he also evidently enjoys breaking the other actors' rhythm. You're encouraged to believe that this is a free-form stage dress rehearsal and that Perry takes the director's prerogative to step out of character and boss his cast around...
...fortunes this season, the middle of its lineup will have to become a force once again. With Wilson playing in the minor leagues and questions surrounding a talented but injury-plagued freshman class, Harvard has to receive production from some of its returning players other than Vance.Among the cast of would-be sluggers, Stack-Babich appears the most likely to take the lead role.Once a highly touted prospect for Wake Forest, Stack-Babich redshirted his freshman year. with the Demon Deacons. After the coach who recruited him retired and new skipper Rick Rembielak appeared intent on starting fresh with...