"What I do is like a producer picking up the individual tracks of some unbelievable music," said Mr. Bianco, who often expresses himself in musical terms.
She also is trying acting again, starring in a film that begins shooting next spring, but this time she will also be the producer, picking the director, writer and co-star.
The rapper, whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., was punished with an extra two-week stint in prison after his manager, his wife and a television producer picked him up from an Arkansas prison in a luxury bus and transported him to Atlanta.
The producer picks the show, the audience only can choose the club, thus picking the show indirectly.
Fueled by Mr. Erdogan's outburst, anti-Israeli street protests in Turkey lasted for weeks, and television producers, picking up on public sentiment, began a popular series that depicted Israeli security forces as brutal, kidnapping babies and killing innocent civilians.
The producers picked an alley.
The "Lost" producers picked fan appreciation as their theme.
And when the local supply of grass-fed meat gets low, out-of-region producers pick up the slack.
The Secretary of Energy, Bill Richardson, in the sixth day of his 10-day tour of some of the largest oil producers, picked up strong support here from Egypt.
The two producers picked up recommendations from an advisory council that reads like a Palm Pilot Who's Who of contemporary art curators nationwide.
Earlier that day, to vividly represent that racially diverse audience, "Tyra Show" producers picked 10 girls, some of whom, one producer told me, were found at a nearby McDonald's (rather than, say, shopping at the Union Square farmers' market, which attracts a wealthier, more established crowd that does not need Tyra as an advocate).
