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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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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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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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.
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.
"It's not just the casting that makes it feel daring, " said Henry Hitchings in the Evening Standard.
"Casting's always a challenge, no matter what you're doing, because you want to get the right team together, " Ponturo said.
"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.
"(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.
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.
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.
Kazakhstan's economic troubles are also casting a shadow on its neighbour Kyrgyzstan, where several Kazakh banks have operations.
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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.
It doesn't take much imagination to see where Macbeth's Three Witches of Eastwick, casting toil and trouble from their hill, might have come from.
With his studied Baltimore accent, he's soft and shapeless, his casting a stunt with no reason for being except as a stunt.
The world's third-biggest drugmaker is casting off its pharmacy benefits management arm, Merck-Medco , which accounts for 55% of its sales, as a separate publicly traded company.
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.
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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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is casting a skeptical eye on the mutual fund business for billing small investors millions of dollars per year to underwrite its lobbying activities.
"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.
"We're working with people like Dark Knight's stunt co-ordinator and Titanic's sound designer, Star Wars' casting director and a lot of the guys who worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit as well, " said Mr McNicoll.
Gordon Brown became Britain's prime minister without a single ordinary Briton casting a vote.
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Naturally all this gloom about the conglomerates is casting shadows over the country's banks.
"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.
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