College applications and the SATs are already part of a stressful time for young people without adding murder to the mix. Much like her contemporaries, though, Nicole Davidson knew death could strike at any time or any place. The young-adult author uses this familiar rite of passage as the backdrop of her 1990 novel Crash Course. The setup is suspicious enough; eight teens in pursuit of higher learning, along with their strict teacher, hole up at a lakeside cabin during the Thanksgiving holiday. This recipe for danger is self-fulfilling once a student dies under strange circumstances. And until help arrives, the other students succumb to their isolation and growing paranoia.
The teen characters of Crash Course are more or less strangers who have been sentenced to five days with Mr. Alexander Porter, a hard-as-nails teacher who runs a program for students planning to take the SATs. The story’s 16-year-old protagonist,...
The teen characters of Crash Course are more or less strangers who have been sentenced to five days with Mr. Alexander Porter, a hard-as-nails teacher who runs a program for students planning to take the SATs. The story’s 16-year-old protagonist,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Jeff Mitchell on Rue McClanahanI was working on a movie for Paramount called "The Fighting Temptations," directed by Jonathan Lynn and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. We were doing the New York casting. Rue McClanahan was pitched for it by her agent. She was doing a lot of television, but she wanted to do film very badly. We had her in to meet the director, who was British and didn't know her or understand she was a huge star in the United States. Rue took the material and she did her best. We knew what the scene was about and what the director wanted, but the communication between actor and director wasn't working properly. No matter what he was asking, he wasn't getting what he wanted. The casting director has to take a back seat when the director is running the casting session. Even though I thought I could be a...
- 7/7/2010
- backstage.com
Jeff Mitchell casts for film and television with Jennifer Rudolph at New York's Mitchell/Rudolph Casting. His film credits include "GI Joe," "Transformers," "Disturbia," "The Grudge," "The Grudge 2," "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," "Hostel," "American Pie 4," "Miss Congeniality 2," and "Spy Kids 2." TV credits include "Grounded for Life," "Racing for Time," "Wifey," "The Virgin of Akron, Ohio," "Mad TV," "American Family," "Weeds," and "The Suite Life." Mitchell also teaches The Business Blast, a three-and-a-half-hour session dedicated to preparing for a film and television career. Email businessclass@mitchellrudolph.com for more information.Go-To ActorsSome actors get jobs over and over and over again. Actors complain that casting directors never want to see new faces and don't want to open their doors to unrepresented actors. So few unrepresented actors really understand where the bar is. And the reason why the same people get hired is because they're doing something amazing and special.
- 1/7/2010
- backstage.com
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