Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...both Carter and Reagan won impressively in widely separated areas of the nation. Theorists may devise a better way to choose the party's presidential candidates-and many Americans hope they do-but no system would work any more successfully unless it could start with a different cast of characters...
...Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every American head counted, census messages will accompany tens of millions of Social Security checks and telephone and utility bills. They will be distributed on flyers by thousands of Boy Scouts; they will...
...Little Tramp, who died at 88 in 1977, has been stalled by a standoff between the Greater London Council, which wants to rehabilitate the square speedily, and the more snail-paced local Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete with crooked cane, cockeyed derby, sagging frock coat, baggy pants and oversize shoes, in the studio of Sculptor John Doubleday, 33. It was a bureaucratic impasse that the maker of Modern Times would have relished...
...Houston, is persuaded to buy it. Her tight-lipped mamma (Sudie Bond) and Flo's girlhood friend (Joyce Bulifant) pitch in to help make the place presentable, and we are introduced to what gives some promise of being an amusing cast of characters...
...supporting cast, including Bob Newhart, Julie Andrews and Brian Dennehy, is fine too. What is missing is the necessary conviction on the part of actors and director that the idea of using a little girl as a betting marker is the funniest thing they ever heard of. But you do not get that when you remake a remake...