Word: casting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...
...prove his point about the lack of ethical or aesthetic standards on TV. Aided by his skeptical, ambitious assistant (Jada Pinkett Smith), he hires as his stars a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his pal (Tommy Davidson). Renamed Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat, they are given a supporting cast of Topsy, Rastus, Sambo and Aunt Jemima--enough reminders of racism to spur protests from an enraged citizenry. Guess what? The show is a smash. Audience members show up in blackface. The unknowns become stars. America loves Mantan...
...other hands, this guy could have been an insufferable saint. Thankfully, writer-creator Paul Attanasio (also writer-creator of Homicide) not only made him wonderfully complicated--a roiling package of arrogance, humility, bristliness and tenderness--but also cast Braugher, a specialist in depthful, surprising characters. Fresh out of Juilliard, Braugher was introduced in the 1989 Civil War film Glory as a Harvard student turned soldier. The neophyte didn't even know what the phrase "hit your mark" meant; star Morgan Freeman gave him a "five-minute crash course in how to act." He has since done film, TV and stage...
...Gore's caricature of Bush has been in place for a year, but Bush's picture of Big Government Al didn't come into focus until Sept. 28. During a speech in Green Bay, Wis., Bush charged that Gore "has left the vital center of American politics ... (and) cast his lot with the old Democratic Party," betraying the reform-minded moderates that Gore helped propel to power in 1992. "The Vice President was seated right behind Bill Clinton at the State of the Union when the President declared, ?The era of Big Government is over,'" Bush said. "Apparently, the message...
...first presidential debate on Tuesday made that clear. The vice presidential debate two nights later, between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, cast an interesting light upon the depressing dilemma in which Americans find themselves...