Word: typecaster
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...Paulina Porizkova. Correction: make that mission "impossible." The problem is not that Selleck and Porizkova cannot act, although that probability remains high. The real problem with Her Alibi, which stars the two together for the first time, lies in the fact that both actors have been so exhaustively typecast that any screenplay written for the both of them would be an exercise in deja...
...well knew. It was no coincidence that he called his first detective "Mallory." Chandler identified all too closely with his "shop- soiled Galahad," struggling to maintain a code of honor in a Hollywood that had never heard of the Marquis of Queensberry rules. Chandler knew the sting of being typecast as a small-time operator ("The better you write a mystery," he complained, "the more clearly you demonstrate that the mystery is not really worth writing"). Yet what he knew most of all, as one of Hollywood's great theoreticians, was that a writer cannot afford to be too removed...
Minorities, who may have stronger family tiesthan other students or may be typecast in certainways, have special difficulties fitting into themainstream. And others, from homogenouscommunities, have their own problems adjusting todiversity...
...what we are all about." In his speech to Moscow's cultural elite, he gave new insight into why he finds himself breaking out of his stereotype as an unvarnished foe of what he once called the "evil empire." "In the movie business, actors often get what we call typecast," he said. "The studios come to think of you as playing certain kinds of roles, and no matter how hard you try, you just can't get them to think of you in any other way. Well, politics is a little like that...
Crimson: In Something wild, you played an obsessively jealous ex-husband, and now in Dominick and Eugene, your second film role, you play a sensitive, hard-working medical student. How did you manage to avoid getting typecast...