Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last 21 months of the Duplessis regime Barrette ran his department from Joliette, virtually boycotted cabinet meetings. In his first words as premier, he identified himself with the Sauve reforms, pledged himself to defend French Canada's historic stance "without rancor or pettifogging." Under no illusion that he cast as large a shadow as Strongman Duplessis or the brilliant Sauve, Barrette at least did not underestimate his office. "Someone once asked me what I thought of a certain Prime Minister of England," he said. "I replied that the Prime Minister of England is always great...
...cast, chosen from more than 100 who auditioned, consists primarily of Harvard and Radcliffe students. However, director Stephen Randall '60 was unable to cast undergraduates in "four very difficult roles written for older people," Henning explained. Because of this problem, the company was unable to quality for the Army college drama program...
...play will be done, perhaps for the first time, as it was written, he remarked --as a play about people in a small New Hampshire town. In order to give the "non-Yankee" members of the cast an opportunity to see and hear just how New Hampshire natives live and talk, the company will probably spend several weekends in the Peterborough area...
...Brando? In working out the show, producers and cast had a few problems with the medical profession. After reading the script, Dr. Russell Meyers, chief of neurosurgery at the University of Iowa, sent off a flamboyant, eight-page, single-spaced letter to NBC Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff. Meyers had many complaints, centering on the script's "implicit false optimism." One claim that Dr. Meyers disputed in particular was the script's suggestion that Photographer Bourke-White's surgeon had invented the special technique used in her operation. The technique should be credited, said Meyers, to Meyers...
Black Orpheus (French). Winner of the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes, this wildly beautiful adaptation of the old legend is made new and vital by an unknown cast, the brilliant direction of Marcel Camus, and a Brazilian tropical background...