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In episode #355, former casting director ⁠Joel Thurm⁠ chats with ⁠Trey Elling⁠ about ⁠SEX, DRUGS, & PILOT SEASON: CONFESSIONS OF A CASTING DIRECTOR⁠. Topics include:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:57 Joaquin Phoenix’s influence on the book
0:02:58 Growing up on a dairy farm in Brooklyn, NY
0:08:16 David Merrick’s influence on Joel’s career
0:13:03 How Pearl Bailey got Joel to Hollywood
0:16:21 LSD, a puffy shirt, & Jesus Christ Superstar
0:21:12 Learning how to handle people from Ethel Winant
0:23:46 The Minutes on CBS
0:27:18 Charlton Heston
0:28:03 Casting Susan Sarandon The Rocky Horror Picture Show
0:30:49 Why Aaron Spelling Leonard Goldberg made such a good team
0:33:14 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble
0:38:45 Grease as an example of Joel’s philosophy on money & creativity
0:40:52 Olivia Newton John’s “Slutty Sandy” scene
0:43:26 Getting the team back together for Grease Live in 2019
0:47:11 The joys of working on Taxi
0:55:36 Airplane!
0:59:06 Why Peter Graves & Kareem Abdul Jabbar getting cast
1:00:55 Leslie Nielsen reinventing himself with Airplane!
1:03:10 Ted Danson, Shelly Long, & Cheers
1:06:59 Choosing Claire Huxtable for The Cosby Show
1:11:39 Joel bucking “casting couch” stereotype
1:20:25 What he would’ve done differently
1:23:24 Why he stopped casting in the early 1990s
1:25:30 Joel’s last casting job