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Remembering Me (Reading)
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ID # 31414
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Live Event
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SRN
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Detroit, MI |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
04-24-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
04-26-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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Detroit, MI |
Payment is on a lo/no/deferred basis.
Non-Union. Director: Alisa Lomax. I'm looking for actors to do a table read of a dramatic screenplay. The reading is scheduled for Sat, May 20; time TBD.
While there is no pay, this is for Experienced actors only. By experienced, I mean that you have acted before - stage or screen, and that you know how to read a script. Also, if you're way below or above the age range, please don't respond.
Note: This is a self-response notification. If you fit the role criteria and are interested in this project, please see the submission info below the role description.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 3 talent(s) for this role
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Age 35-50; 3 women needed
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 35 to 50
Ethnicity: African American - |
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Seeking 2 talent(s) for this role
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Age 35-50; 2 men needed
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 35 to 50
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Uris failed English three times and never graduated from high school
"When I read all my correspondence again, I realized I was a hustler," he said Leon Uris, Author of 'Exodus,' Dies at 78
Jun 24, 8:09 AM EST
Author Leon Uris, an immigrant's determined son who made it big with the best-selling "Exodus" and other hugely popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said Tuesday " Critics didn't care for the novel (they didn't care for most of his books) but Uris would call it his proudest achievement, "the one thing I wrote not caring if it sold ten copies or ten thousand
The novel then traces Zadok's ancestry back to the 1880s, allowing various relatives to tell their stories
'"Exodus' has been the Bible of the Jewish dissident movement in Russia," Uris told The Associated Press in a 1988 interview "Mila 18" was also an unintentional influence on both American publishing and American slang: Its title convinced a rival publisher to change the name of an upcoming novel, by a then-unknown Joseph Heller, from "Catch-18" to "Catch-22 The book begins in Israel in 1956 during the time of the Suez Canal crisis and centers on the experiences of Gideon Zadok, a writer covering the incident
I used everything to my advantage He went from failure to failure "
"I used to think of myself as a very sad little Jewish boy, isolated in a Southern town, undersized, asthmatic," Uris told the AP
In 1960, "Exodus" was released as a feature film, starring Paul Newman Two years later, he came out with "The Angry Hills," a spy novel, and in 1956, traveled to Israel to begin research on "Exodus His father, Wolf William, was a paper hanger and storekeeper Wladislav Dering, whom the author identified as a war criminal Kennedy Award in 1976
Uris' most personal novel, "Mitla Pass," came out in 1988 and closely follows the lives of the author and his family "
His first novel, "Battle Cry," a story about the Marines, was released in 1953 and made into a film Uris is certainly not as good a writer as Pynchon, Barthelme or Nabokov; but he is a better storyteller I hurt a lot of people on the way up For the story of three Irish families from the mid-19th century to the Easter Rising of 1916, Uris was given the Irish Institute's John F Nine years later, he was reportedly fired by Hitchcock from the adaptation of "Topaz "
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The novel was translated into dozens of languages and was even distributed secretly in communist countries "
His latest work, titled "O'Hara's Choice," was set for release in October, Jill Uris said, but illness had prevented him from making plans for a promotional tour
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Pete Hamill criticized Uris for the "excess baggage of exposition and information," but concluded "None of that matters as you are swept along in the narrative
Published in 1958, the 600-page "Exodus" was a sensation as millions read Uris' detailed, heroic chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948
"I was looking for a legacy to leave my new family and my grandchildren," Uris told the AP In researching "Exodus," he logged thousands of miles and ended up reporting on the 1956 conflict in the Middle East He served as a marine in World War II and afterward began submitting articles to magazines
Uris died Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, photographer Jill Uris said from her home in Aspen, Colo You spend the second half of your life getting over your first half," he said
In the 1970s, Uris would enjoy great success with "Trinity," a typically encyclopedic novel, this one about Ireland Uris was originally involved with the screenplay, but was reportedly dismissed after a dispute with director Preminger But he pushed on with his life Gray contributed to this report
"He had been quite ill this year and was not traveling," she said, adding that, though divorced in 1989, the couple had remained friends "
Uris' other novels included "Trinity," an epic best seller about Ireland; "QBVII," a courtroom drama based on his legal troubles with "Exodus"; and "Mila 18," about the Jewish uprising in Warsaw during World War II
Uris also endured some of his own battles, feuding with directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock, and fighting lawsuits for both "Exodus" and the thriller "Topaz He finally had a piece, "The All American Razzmatazz," published in the January 1951 issue of "Esquire "It's referred to as 'The Book Uris' principal source was Phillipe Thyraud de Vosjoli, an exiled French diplomat who gave the author information about the French Intelligence Service I could be very ruthless I simply had to tell a story "I was tough '"
Energetic and unafraid, the author was as much an adventurer as a writer, traveling tirelessly and sometimes risking his life
"I think his personality was formed by the harsh realities of being a Jew in Czarist Russia," Uris told the AP "
After "Exodus," Uris traveled throughout Eastern Europe interviewing Holocaust survivors for "Mila 18 In 1968, a year after "Topaz" came out, Vosjoli sued Uris for allegedly reneging on a profit-sharing agreement
"I think I can say without hesitation that from earliest memory I was determined not to be a failure "He was basically a failure He was 78 "
More controversy came with "Topaz," an espionage story involving the French government
"I wanted to leave them with a story of what their old man did and let them know he was not infallible I think failure formed his character, made him bitter "
Controversy helped "Exodus" sell when Uris was accused of libel for his depictions of Dr The author married three times and had two children
Like Zadok, Uris was born in Baltimore and spent several years growing up in Norfolk, Va In 1964, a London court ruled in favor of Dering, but awarded him minimal damages and made him pay court costs
