51.   Shy roommates, or those who value privacy, have made for the duller stretches on the show, and so the casting directors have learned to hire extroverts.

52.   So he hired a bilingual casting director, Lizzie Martinez of Austin, Texas, to find talent.

53.   Some casting directors are better than others at spotting magical combinations, but chemistry is not an exact science.

54.   The casting director suggested Mumba for the part after seeing a photo of the singer in People magazine.

55.   The casting director, who was taping Ms. Schanz on video, really loved the red hair.

56.   The first scenario is the way casting directors and agents have played their game for decades, indeed the way most still operate.

57.   The listener becomes the set designer, the wardrobe mistress, the casting director.

58.   The movie director does the call-backs, and the casting director telephones the losers.

59.   The Los Angeles-based casting director Sally Stiner, who has a background in child psychology, agrees.

60.   The mellifluously named actor is currently on the lips of every casting director in Hollywood, on the covers of many hip magazines.