{"id":1543,"date":"2014-06-13T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2014-06-13T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:03:21","slug":"all-right-mr-demille-im-ready-for-my-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/all-right-mr-demille-im-ready-for-my-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All right, Mr. DeMille, I&#8217;m ready for my close-up.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunsetBoulevardfilmposter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunsetBoulevardfilmposter1.jpg\" alt=\"SunsetBoulevardfilmposter[1]\" width=\"209\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Ah, yes, Norma Desmond&#8217;s famous line from the 1950 film\u00a0<a title=\"Sunset Boulevard (IMDb)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, compliments of another one of Marshal Zeringue&#8217;s cool blogs, <a title=\"My Book, The Movie\" href=\"https:\/\/mybookthemovie.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Book, The Movie<\/a>, Rachel Gold may be ready for her close-up. Marshal seeks out authors of new novels and asks them to cast the movie version. So when he got word that <a title=\"Face Value (Amazon link)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Face-Value-Rachel-Gold-Mystery\/dp\/1464202788\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Face Value<\/em><\/a>, the 9th in the Rachel Gold mystery series, was about to be published, Marshal offered me the chance to become a casting director.<\/p>\n<p>As I explain in my post, which you can read <a title=\"Face Value--My Book, The Movie\" href=\"https:\/\/mybookthemovie.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/michael-kahns-face-value.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, the casting decision for the role of Rachel Gold has changed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/director-charm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/director-charm1.jpg\" alt=\"director charm[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>over time. The right actress to play her today is quite different from the one dating back 20+ years to the publication of the first book in the series, <em>The Canaan Legacy<\/em> (renamed in paperback <a title=\"Grave Designs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/GRAVE-DESIGNS-Rachel-Gold-Mystery-ebook\/dp\/B0051WQD5I\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1402678651&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=grave+designs\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Grave Designs<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>See what you think of my casting suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah, yes, Norma Desmond&#8217;s famous line from the 1950 film\u00a0Sunset Boulevard. And suddenly, compliments of another one of Marshal Zeringue&#8217;s cool blogs, My Book, The Movie, Rachel Gold may be ready for her close-up. Marshal seeks out authors of new novels and asks them to cast the movie version. So when he got word that&#8230;","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[117,94,120,119,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelakahn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}