[Publib] casting director with their head on backwards

[Miriam Bobkoff]

So Lions Gate is filming a scene for their SciFi channel series The Lost Room 
in our Southwest Room. The parking lot is full of equipment, the building is 
full of guys who look like they belong in California. (Though in fact the 
governor has lured LionsGate to base itself in Albuquerque, which is probably 
why the City decided we must play host to them.)

This would be only inconvenient for the patrons, and both disruptive and 
entertaining for us, except YOU SHOULD SEE THE ACTRESS THEY'VE GOT PLAYING 
THE LIBRARIAN. She is about 75, greyhaired, frail, and plainly grumpy. She's 
presently sitting in the Magazine Room wearing sensible clothes and waiting 
for her call, and I gotta tell you, we are really really pissed off at this 
casting decision. I mean, they coulda gotten someone who looks like... almost 
any one of us... instead. 

The locations guy says the character is not a librarian but an archivist. 
This is supposed to assuage our irritation at being stereotyped. He tells us 
that according to the script her name is Mabel.

Miriam Bobkoff                mkbobkoff at santafenm.gov
Santa Fe Public Library
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