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ID # 31759
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Episodic
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Submission Type |
SRN
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| Location |
Corte Madera CA |
Union |
Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
04-26-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
04-27-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Episodic TV - Non-Union
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| Market(s) |
San Francisco, CA |
The DaVinci hour will tape during the middle of July. Richthofen tapes the last two weeks of July. Bell tapes the first two weeks of August. Kennedy will tape in the beginning of September. They will be mostly local shoots, and for those, actors have to provide their own transportation.
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NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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- Italian-speaking actors for inventor LEONARDO DAVINCI (late 40s – early 50s).
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Gender: Male
Age: from 45 to 50
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- German-speaking actors to play THE RED BARON (early 20s).
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Age: from 20 to 25 |
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Actors aged 40-50 to portray ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, the man credited with the invention of the telephone.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 40 to 50
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- Massachusetts-speaking actors with a STRONG resemblance to president JOHN F. KENNEDY to play the former president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 40 to 55
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Tower Records: www Among the chain's troubles: deep-discounting rivals, changing consumer habits, lack of hits and its own missteps in the 1990s as the music business began a dramatic shift
As part of its restructuring, the company has even begun reviewing its CD prices, which often prompt mainstream record buyers to scoff and buy elsewhere Tower has also overhauled management, begun experimenting with new non-music merchandise â€â€? and has reported its first sales gain over last year: up 2 percent the first two weeks of November "What Napster did during its season in the sun was demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt that the consumer is ready for music to be distributed over the Internet towerrecords "
Music purists may sigh, but Burton says it's the path to the corporation's one true goal at the moment: to reach the end of 2003 earning more money than the interest payments on its $200 million debt
"I believe retailers have to re-energize music stores as social destinations," she says, and Tower "set the bar for the in-store experience" where people wander aisles "checking stuff out Petersburg, Fla com
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"I would like to support the music industry," says the San Francisco high school senior
Under the eyes of watchful creditors, they're fast remaking Tower into a "full entertainment" store
Tower exemplifies the even deeper woes in a recording industry beset by piracy, computer CD "burners" and fans who download from the Internet rather than buy from stores
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A similar 1980s Burton strategy â€â€? adding major brand beauty products to Supercuts stores â€â€? turned around that ailing chain Though record industry officials call CDs a bargain compared to other entertainment options, Chu browses at Tower for hip hop, rap and rock music, then downloads at home "It seems to me," says Lee Landenberger, 46, of Atlanta, an ex-radio DJ who spends $2,000 a year on music and liberally burns CDs for friends, "their rationale all along has been, 'We charge a lot and always have, but we have such a huge catalogue of stuff that's going to bring you in "That will always have a place
"You can generate some momentum, and everything feeds on itself with new energy in the store," she says
"Where Tower prices, where they've historically priced, to be perfectly honest, is not competitive," argues one New York investment analyst, Colin McGranahan of Sanford Bernstein "
Not long after, Tower began its four-year streak of losses in a market turned upside down by free music downloads on Napster and successors such as KaZaa 18 99 or $14 In 1997, Tower's founder, Russ Solomon, now 77, boasted in a magazine interview that his company "can compete with anybody
"The terrestrial retailers of music have seen their best day," says Phil Leigh, digital music analyst with Raymond James Associates in St Tower Records Hopes Holidays Will Save It
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif "But I'm young and I don't have much money
"It's a place to go, to find fellow enthusiasts and discover new music," Burton says " She's pushing gift cards and E-gift cards, while moving in DVD videos, small electronics and more video games, which are seeing double-digit sales growth again this year Alongside Tower's mix of Eminem and Pavarotti, Burton is blending "fun things for the holidays, unique toys and collectibles, pop culture and offbeat things
Tower's troubles started in 1998 when it borrowed $110 million to fuel an expansion drive in Asia, South America, Canada and Great Britain "
But RIAA chairwoman Hilary Rosen says, "I'm not that pessimistic Tower has done a "decent job" digging out of its problems, he says, but "regardless of what works, it's not going to be selling packaged material in stores 99, compared with $13
Indeed, New York-based Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks music shipments, reports the recording industry shipped 22
Tower's typical CD can cost up to $18 "
Investment analysts consider comments like that when they look at Tower's restructuring strategy and competitive struggle and view retail stores as long-run losers in the paradigm shift to cyberspace
Meanwhile, RIAA cites estimates that music fans illegally download more than 2 "
Bernstein's McGranahan agrees
"We're looking for things that can move the needle quickly," says Betsy Burton, 50, a corporate turnaround specialist hired Sept "
Burton, agreeing that a big shift to digital distribution is under way, notes that Tower's Internet site now offers paid downloads from the Universal Music Group catalogue 6 billion music files a month on the Internet "
This Christmas, 3,400 Tower employees are banking on it
Today, music fans like Eric Chu, 17, are increasingly turned off by CD prices (AP) â€â€? Tower Records, the storied 1960s music chain that launched the music megastore and became a cultural retailing icon, strolls into its 43rd holiday shopping season this weekend struggling with debt and on the ropes
The company that grew up on rock 'n' roll and matured into a hip center of world music recently cut 90 jobs and sold 51 profitable stores in Japan riaa '"
After $167 million in losses over four years, Tower aims mainly now to keep its brand alive, regroup and rebuild " Solomon also predicted an industry shakedown where companies would die and "the good ones will get bigger The Recording Industry Association of America reports CD shipments fell 7 percent in the first half of 2002, after falling 5 percent last year But she says people will always enjoy the ambiance of big music stores and seeing bands perform
More closings are imminent
As 2002's countdown to Christmas begins, the family-held chain of 113 stores in 21 states â€â€? known for steep prices, deep selection and superstore band appearances â€â€? is in the hands of a corporate restructurer "It's important to do some things, and do successes early on -based Tower hopes four weeks of strong sales will reverse a new image as the tottering giant inside a stumbling music industry And in the season when record retailers typically rack up 30 percent of their annual sales, Tower's managers see a chance for new life
But the chain has a loyal base of older, more affluent customers who spend heavily on music and appreciate its wide selection
