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...silent formality when an actor hands in his or her Common Casting form and stands there, waiting, as Hanley looks over the sheet.It’s the moment before performance, so it’s the actor’s last moment of anonymity. “Okay, I want you to do it again. This time, I’m going to give you a spasm. Your leg,” Hanley says. Making the auditioning actor incorporate a nervous tic into her monologue is one of Hanley’s trademark moves, to see how well...
Although most of the casting decisions come down to intangible factors like "presence" and the actor’s particular "fit" for "Chicago," Hanley relies on formulaic tests, like giving actors a nervous tic, to evaluate the auditioners. "Okay, I want you to do it again. This time, I’m going to give you a spasm," Hanley says to another auditioning actor...
...Restaurants are okay, mosques are a bit dodgy, and headscarves are a very bad thing,” Ahmed joked...
...much careful consideration as they might have with a cartoon depicting African-Americans or the Jewish community,” Mujahid said. “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism both show a degree of hate, but somehow the media continuously takes Islamophobia to be something okay.” Junaid M. Afeef, Gorton’s attorney and a founding member of the Muslim Bar Association in Illinois, said that he felt the publisher’s decision to suspend the two editors was an overreaction and a baseless decision by the publisher, Mary Cory. While Afeef said he regretted...
...response to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff's insistence that the administration made a rigorous check - without disclosing details - of the security implications of the deal, California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said "It's ridiculous to say you're taking secret steps to make sure that it's okay for a nation that has ties to 9/11 to take over part of our port operations...