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  • These screen-test stars also became subjects for Malanga's evolving poetry -- by now a far cry from either Auden's or Maas's and more like the surreal love lyrics of fellow Factory poet Piero Heliczer.

    Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet 2010

  • These screen-test stars also became subjects for Malanga's evolving poetry -- by now a far cry from either Auden's or Maas's and more like the surreal love lyrics of fellow Factory poet Piero Heliczer.

    Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet 2010

  • The blog commenters were quick to pounce: "You're a dumb-blonde, airhead READER who can't ad-lib during actual NEWS and you fail a screen-test," one screamed.

    Willow Bay: Bile in the Blogosphere 2008

  • We're such geniuses, we said, "Let's screen-test her!"

    Ms. Roberts Goes To Hollywood 2008

  • I have never quite understood how I talked her into letting me enter the Beverly Hills Miss Easter Bunny pageant when I was 8 -- one of the prizes was a screen-test -- but I did.

    Amy Ephron: Miss Easter Bunny 2008

  • Before they were able to reach a decision about the baby, however, Frank received a telegram from his new agent, Burt Allenberg, of the William Morris Agency, telling him that Cohn had agreed to screen-test him for From Here to Eternity.

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • Cohn telephoned Sinatra and said he might screen-test him for the role, and if he decided to do so, he'd be back in touch.

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • As for coping with the loss, he's been watching footage from the early films and his first screen-test with Radcliffe and Watson: "There's this weird detachment, it feels like a different person."

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Originally thinking he had the part in the can, Reynolds was surprised to learn that the studio expected him to screen-test and audition, unsure as to whether he was the ideal actor for the role.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Word is, she did it to screen-test and audition for the part of Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming flick based on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

    Jezebel 2010

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