Earlier in the week, producers alerted that legal reasons prevented Janel and Val from using any of the iconic "West Side Story" dance moves for their "America" performance.
Marie received the role when her producer alerted her of the audition, and she eventually received a call from the Family Guy casting director a month later.
Before I'm away for a week, a belated catchup with a good post over at flavorwire.com (thanks to Peter Meanwell, breakfast researcher, Ligeti and ukulele fanatic, and Radio 3 producer, for alerting me to it) on the links between today's indie scene and yesterday's – well, and today's – classical composers.
In the 19th century, producers were rapidly alert to the dramatic possibilities of the characters and narratives of Charles Dickens, who, as Claire Tomalin's biography suggests, turned to writing after being frustrated in his hope of a theatre career.
On Thursday, El-P dropped this all-caps, cuss-laden bomb after getting a track from British producers Massive Attack: "ALERT: WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED THE MEOWMIXXX BY @MassiveAttackUK AND IT IS... CRAZY!!!!!" What followed were more tweets about the meows.
Carey's manager told Billboard that they'd alerted producers to the supposedly malfunctioning earpieces ten minutes prior to showtime, but were forced to charge on regardless.
Then, on Monday, after originally agreeing to interview Mr. Simpson for yesterday's edition of NBC's "Today," Matt Lauer, the program's co-host, alerted producers that he did not want to take part in the segment.
A publicist for "Bad Education," Jessica Uzzan, said that the director and producers had been alerted early on that this was an issue and argued it with the M.P.A.A. but that they had never considered cutting the scene.
Alert to producers, directors, and screenwriters, from Snoop Dogg, interviewed this week in Die Zeit: If I had to pick a dream role, I'd want to play Miles Davis.
In her meandering column Saturday in the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker leads with a catchy phrase: "Sound the alarms, man the barricades, alert the producers!
