Word: cowboying
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...producer and director pick the stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds...
...pick someone from the studio's stable of contract actors. When the studios cut back in the '60s, that system was largely dismantled. Producers had to find actors on their own, and they began to depend on a new group of independent casting directors. Explains Urban Cowboy Producer Robert Evans: "I don't have the time to go to off-Broadway plays and little theaters or to watch hours of television...
...moment, Haddad is completely dependent on Israel's military and economic support. A group of his officers, gathered in Bennt Jbail for a briefing, wore Israeli khaki jackets with Haddad's Christian militia shoulder insignia; one was in jeans and several sported cowboy boots. About 70% of the people who live in Free Lebanon are Shi'ite Muslims; to the area's Christian minority of 33,000, Haddad is nothing short of a hero. In Marjayoun, several young militiamen gathered around pinball machines to talk about their leader. "We are so thankful for Major Haddad...
...manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many people looked upon him as a heavyhanded man. That was not really true. He was sort of like a cowboy making love...
That sound, coarsely textile as the water-tight cotton cover of Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using), has been replaced with one more metallic alloying steel and electronic instrumentation. This amalgamation of disco, cowboy rock, and R&B maintains a measure of continuity with the recent albums, aided perhaps by the continued presence of engineer Greg Ladanyi and several hold-overs from The Section, including David Lindley. Lindley's fiddle, alas, has no place in the new sound: Bill Payne, with the electronic organ heard out across the wilderness of "Your Bright Baby Blues" is a more likely Pied Piper...