[Publib] casting director with their head on backwards

[Lorie Hyten]

And while we're at it....anyone else put off by Garrison Keillor's
representation of librarians in that skit he does on Prairie Home Companion?
Can't recall the name of the ongoing series....it's "something, Reference
Librarian" and she's portrayed mostly as an uptight geeky shssing
stereotype.

Lorie Hyten

Reference
Olathe Public Library
201 E. Park
Olathe, KS
(913) 971-6887
lhyten at olatheks.org 

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On Behalf Of Miriam Bobkoff
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:13 PM
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
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Santa Fe, NM 87501            The Library's Page:
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