Unlike most show applicants, Massey did not make an audition tape or sign up months in advance for her chance at television stardom.
Then he remembers that he was asked to make an audition tape at home for a part in a Will Smith movie.
With John Guedel, who would go on to create the quiz show "You Bet Your Life" and the comedy "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," Mr. Linkletter made an audition tape for an audience-participation show, with contests and gags, that would rely on his ability to ad-lib and coax humorous material from virtually anyone.
Llewyn figures he might be able to make an audition in Chicago, and to that end shares a car with a smoulderingly Kerouac-y poet, played by Garrett Hedlund and a pompous jazz musician played by John Goodman with a habit that keeps him detained a long time in the men's room.
"I didn't give a damn if I was just going to stand there and watch," she says, "and I ended up learning a lot about the process of making a movie". Knowing that the production company was casting from Los Angeles and New York, Zellweger rounded up her roommates and made an audition tape, which she directed, edited and sent overnight just in time for a Monday morning deadline.
When Duchovny was auditioning for the part of Fox Mulder, he made a "terrific" audition, but spoke rather slowly.
Pedro Martínez kept the Dominicans close and made a terrific audition for a major league job with three solid innings of relief.
So he turns to them and says: "You've got to talk to my buddy Alan, he works for Weather Report". They didn't know who Weather Report were so they said: "Is that the Weather Report at 7 o'clock or the one at 11?" Nevertheless, he gave them my name and I went down and made a little audition tape.
In 2005, Peretyatko (seldom prone to understatement) made "a million auditions" at opera studios across Germany before landing a two-year contract with the Hamburg State Opera.
