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Podcast: The Collection with Brad Gilmore
Episode: Joel Thurm, "Sex, Drugs and Pilot Season"
Description: One of Hollywood’s most admired and accomplished casting directors, Thurm played a key role in many of the most pivotal casting decisions in TV history. The book is must-have for pop culture lovers who spent their childhoods watching classic TV shows including Cheers, Taxi, Golden Girls, and Miami Vice—and/or anyone who binges these shows on cable.  An added bonus:  for Joel’s great stories about the movies Grease, Airplane, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  SEX, DRUGS and PILOT SEASON takes us on the wild ride of his career from working in the theatre with legends Pearl Bailey, Judy Ga...