[Publib] casting director with their head on backwards

[fred.judi at verizon.net]

So, sounds like a good program to stay away from...do I dare say boycott?
Judi

Judi Crowley
Hampstead Public Library
Hampstead, NH  03841
(603) 329-6411
jcrowley at hampstead.lib.nh.us

>From: Miriam Bobkoff <mbobkoff at cybermesa.com>
>Date: 2006/09/27 Wed PM 02:13:01 CDT
>To: publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Publib] casting director with their head on backwards

>
>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
>145 Washington Avenue
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