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Article: Onslaught of reality shows ushers in 'guerrilla casting'.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 19, 2003
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In her small office on the sixth floor of a Miracle Mile office building, Missy Hughes, casting producer for the reality dating program "Fifth Wheel," pores over a wall plastered with scores of bios and passport-sized photos of potential contestants.
"This guy's a stud," Hughes says as she moves along the wall. 'This guy is the all-American boy you'd want to take home to mom. This guy is a total computer geek but there's something quirky about him -- he likes to jump out of airplanes and do wild things."
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