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Walsh remembers Berkman as “a first base/DH type”—a typecast usually reserved for slow, big men who logjam the minor leagues—when he coached him that summer. In 2002, his second year as a full-time player, Berkman was starting in centerfield at Houston’s Minute Maid Park...
...shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake off the cobwebs and relocate the emotional core of a show too often typecast as your grandmother's favorite musical. This is a Fiddler for everybody...
...that I care individually what other people think of me, it’s more the principle of the thing—that I only have 10 seconds to make a gestural/visual/vibe-y good impression, and then that’s it: I’ve been typecast. I mean, what if I have...
Jones also noted a danger of the film business. In his experience, “as a musician you get stereotyped pretty quick.” As soon as “you do hits all the colors fade away” and you become typecast as only being able to create one genre of film score. Sensing this early, he constantly reiterated, motivated his constant drive “to keep moving. Once they say, ‘oh, yeah, Quincy, he does thrillers real good,’ I go do some comedies...
...life and on film, Kaneshiro has proven impossible to typecast. The son of a Japanese businessman and a Taiwanese homemaker, he grew up in Taipei straddling two cultures. "When I went to Japanese school, everybody told me I was Taiwanese," says Kaneshiro. "But when I hung out in the neighborhood, people told me I was Japanese." School-yard taunts about his parentage were a part of his education, but Kaneshiro soon learned that being an outsider offers certain advantages. Pulled over for speeding in Taipei while still a teenager, he produced his Japanese-school ID card instead of a driver...