Mary Ann Larsen and Diane Tapia-Gonzales, who knocked on doors in the Denver suburb of Arvada on Thursday night as volunteers for Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, epitomized the new narrow-cast focus.
Last month, the Washington Post critic Anne Midgette wrote perceptively about the question of race and opera casting, focussing on whether only Asian sopranos should sing the role of Madame Butterfly.
The latter is of Kymlicka's cast, focused upon protecting the interests of the minority from disregard by the majority; the former is inspired by ideals of diversity and the value of variety, the availabity of which in a given country "expands the choice set of autonomous agents" (2006, 290).) (4) The Argument From Success.
Coverage of her casting focused on the fact that Moffett is the daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Doctor's fifth incarnation as the Radio Times stated: "a Doctor's daughter is playing the Doctor's Daughter".
While other reality shows flounder, constantly shifting casts, shifting focus – losing Mark Wright because he wanted to present a TV show called Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights; losing Spencer Matthews and getting stuck with Sam Thompson – Geordie Shore stays honest, with a cast that stays true.
An avuncular, bespectacled narrator (David Staller) is on hand in this version to summarize stretches of exposition, letting the cast members focus principally on the songs and the sprightly dialogue that leads up to them.
For Mr. Babani the goal of the Chocolate Factory, where theatergoers sit as close as three feet from the actors, is to remove the distractions of epic-size production numbers, which can consume money and rehearsal time, so the creators and cast can focus on realizing a show's essence.
A year later London's gay community was given a new voice with Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty", which won the Man Booker prize.The novels of London are now coming full circle, bringing a fuller cast into focus through two modern preoccupations: economic crisis and terrorism.
He says he casts aside focus-group research and follows his instincts, assigning a team to produce inexpensive, experimental pilots freely and keeping an open mind to their ideas -- like following the family of an aging rock star ("The Osbournes") or showing someone stun himself with a Taser gun ("Jackass").
The cast of "Focus" doesn't have one thing: focus.
