Sentence examples for the difficulty of casting from inspiring English sources

Marki Costello, who has cast 36 game shows and reality series, was surprised a few months ago by the difficulty of casting "Next Action Star," an NBC reality offering produced in part by Joel Silver, the executive behind the "Matrix" series.

For years, David O. Selznick held the movie rights to "The Dove," but he never produced an adaptation of the novel, unquestionably because of the difficulty of casting the three principal roles and of finding an adapter who could satisfactorily cope with the dramatization.

"Funny Girl" ran on Broadway from 1964 to 1967 and earned eight Tony nominations but won none - whipped that year by "Hello, Dolly!" Ms. Streisand won an Academy Award for best actress for the 1968 movie version of "Funny Girl," but the musical itself has never been revived on Broadway - a measure of the difficulty of casting Fanny.

By the way, some of the production's preopening publicity centered on the difficulty of casting the role of the cat Holly never gets to naming.

Despite the difficulties of casting, by the 5th century BC bronze was already the preferred material for free-standing sculptures across the Greek world.

In an interview in 2000 with Netribution, a British film industry Web site, Ms. Selway discussed some of the difficulties of casting, including the "inverted snobbery" of directors who do not want to use the best actor for a part because another director has used him.

In a late-afternoon telephone call with religious leaders on Wednesday, Mr. Obama cast the difficulty of the health care debate in terms larger than his presidency, comparing it to the creation of Social Security and Medicare.

"Despite rumors (and hopes) of an upgradable product — the difficulty of removing the S1 alone casts serious doubt on the idea of simply swapping out the internals," they note.

Hays got together with Mayer, and some days later MGM dropped It Can't Happen Here, on the grounds of "casting difficulties".

But given the technical difficulties of casting and counting write-in ballots, and the fact that the mayor is not eligible to serve again because of term limits, Mr. Pataki was all but inviting people to invalidate their votes.

However, Thompson noted that the "noble melodrama sometimes gets to be a little much", and felt that several characters, with the exception of Weed, began "to blur together" due to the difficulty of drawing a very large cast of dogs.