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What Bonnie Timmermann, the Legendary Casting Director of ‘Miami Vice’ and ‘Heat,’ Taught Me About Stardom and Recognizing True Talent (Guest Column)


Writer-director Shannon Plumb on how 'Miami Vice' casting director Bonnie Timmermann finds and nurtures great talents such as Mark Ruffalo.

In the doc, younger versions of today’s movie stars appeared on raw video footage from the eighties: Benicio Del Toro, Steve Buscemi, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Keanu Reeves, Natalie Portman. For two hours we forgot about the upcoming holidays, about broken down subway trains, about the pole between us and the stage, about the man in front of us who laughed loudly, righteously applauded, and threw in some whistles, after a line in favor of cannabis. Mark assembled a make- believe world where dialogue illuminated apartment walls, a football was tossed with pantomime, and props fell and broke all in silence, a crash heard only through the actor’s reactions.

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