"Casting's always a challenge, no matter what you're doing, because you want to get the right team together, " Ponturo said.
Assuming there would be room at the top with Comcast's Steve Burke, the likely candidate to run the combined company (See "Casting Hollywood's New Power Player"), Zucker will have to hope that his cable successes outweigh his broadcast flops in the eyes of his prospective new bosses.
Mr. Legge's casting of the not-yet-30-year-old Ms. Callas as the temperamental singer Floria Tosca was as obvious as it was inspired.
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There is no moment in our national life more sacred than the ritual of casting one's vote in a presidential election.
By casting Beck's visit as insignificant, Ma'ariv disserved its readers.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
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For the band's sophomore release, Casting Shadows Tall as Trees, he's assembled a group of six players, including his brother, Daniel Burke on bass.
Yet on November 24th he defied the BJP's national leaders and stayed on, casting doubt on the BJP's credibility in any fight against corruption.
If the studio head's star casting misfires at the box office, he or she has an excuse.
Pierre, who's been casting his nets for 12 years now, says his job was hardest during the worst period of the piracy -- in 2007 and 2008.
The white, middle-aged man appeared to come straight from the California GOP's central casting, but Mr. Vidak is more salt-of-the-earth than many of his new compatriots in Sacramento.
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While I think the industry is pretty open on casting, it's not that open on making serious movies in general, and serious African-American movies are probably even harder to get financed.
Clinton's keynote at the African summit -- which has been established by American and African interests to promote economic and cultural ties between the U.S. and the continent -- was significant, because perhaps more than any other U.S. president, Clinton has been credited with casting an empathetic eye toward Africa's myriad problems and success stories.
Republicans are casting the White House's pivot toward competitiveness as an excuse for bigger government and more spending.
"Nontraditional" casting, as it's known in the theater business, can be both gratuitous and distracting, but at its best it's capable of shedding fresh light on a familiar play.
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"Maybe the star isn't available or doesn't like the role or the director, " says Hirshenson, who along with her partner Jane Jenkins wrote the book A Star is Found: Our Adventures of Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies.
Naturally all this gloom about the conglomerates is casting shadows over the country's banks.
"It's not just the casting that makes it feel daring, " said Henry Hitchings in the Evening Standard.
"We're always looking for kids that our audience can identify with, " says Judy Taylor, the Disney Channel's vice president of casting and talent relations.
"On the strength of that you could show that to any casting director and say that's the range that she can do, " Kermode said.
The committee split four-all on an increase in February and stayed its hand only on the casting vote of the Bank's governor, Eddie George.
"(N)one of us were in the house when his girlfriend was murdered, let's hold off on casting stones at Oscar Pistorius, " said Adrian van Liere Since.
Our central bankers are casting worried glances at Japan's debilitating deflationary experience of the past 12 years and are anxiously wondering if we're in for the same.
The burgeoning commercial space sector is also casting its gaze towards Earth's only natural satellite with companies considering everything from mining the lunar surface to building extraterrestrial resorts on it.
Police officers on the beat were seldom seem, crime was casting a shadow over people's lives, workers were leaving farming en masse, incomes were down and rural Post Offices were closing down, he said.
One of the 1970s group of Hollywood film directors including George Lucas and Martin Scorsese known as the "movie brats, " Coppola broke new ground in the "The Godfather, " showing the ruthless Corleone gangster's family values, casting them in a sympathetic light.
Kazakhstan's economic troubles are also casting a shadow on its neighbour Kyrgyzstan, where several Kazakh banks have operations.
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How was the long-awaited casting kept secret from the show's incredibly rabid followers?
As of this week, they own yet again with over 30, 000 of 940, 000 eligible Estonians casting virtual ballots in the world's first online parliamentary election.
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