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...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...
...good example of the casting director's art is Urban Cowboy itself. Unable to find the right woman to play the part of Travolta's wife, Evans called in Michael Fenton; he suggested Debra Winger, who had appeared in two little-known films. She was an inspired choice. Her restless sexiness enlivened an otherwise tedious film-and stole the spotlight from Travolta. Joyce Selznick found Kurt Russell, who, after losing 20 lbs. and dying his hair black, played the great pelvis in ABC's Elvis. When Elvis was shown in February 1979, it drew higher ratings than...
...every Winger or Russell, a casting director may have interviewed dozens of candidates and culled from memory hundreds more. Most of the directors, like Fenton, attend as many plays as they can in Los Angeles and make regular tours of off-Broadway. "We have a standing rule in our office that each person must go to two or three theatrical productions a week," says Jennifer Shull, casting director for Coppola's new Hollywood studio. "The job requires thoroughness. You have to look where others...
...looked like B.U. had found the old magic when forward Paul Fenton scored into an empty...
...with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could be a sex symbol," says Ron Michel, the company's communications director. Greene says he went along because "the idea made me laugh...