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Depending on how many actors are needed, a casting director can charge from $15,000 to $25,000 a picture. A mini-series can bring up to $50,000, but most of the casters turn down ordinary series, which are made in such a hurry that they have little time to do a good job. "You get the script three days before production starts," complains Caster Joyce Robinson, "and you have to work 17 hours...
...Rolodexes; others, like Lynn Stalmaster, have as many as half a dozen people on staff. Even after rent and salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year. That is enough to have attracted several dozen highly charged, highly competitive people to the job of caster. With a few exceptions, none of them is secure, and almost on a whim a producer can dump an old hand...
...near the ends of their careers. One meaningless game between two mediocre teams. They duel without every being on the field at the same time. In each series they seem worried that they'll never play again so it's all out, all afternoon. No short passes. Bombs. Rich Caster catches three. Forget who won. It doesn't matter...
...like many female athletes, Field realizes that after graduating she cannot earn a living through her sports skills. So, for years she has considered sports-related occupations. "I've wanted to be a sports-caster since I was in sixth grade," she adds...
...fact, chances are that more people know Scheper the Broadcaster than Scheper the Center. He's the voice of Harvard basketball for WHRB and Marc Sobil, the station's sports director, says "everyone knows he's our best sports-caster...