By David Newman, CGA President
It is with great sadness we farewell our friend, colleague and an icon of the Australian Casting industry, Susie Maizels.
Long before the Me Too era, in the late 70’s and early 1980’s there was a group of trailblazing, fiercely intelligent, strong, passionate, dedicated and determined women who established the Australian Casting Industry and would become some of the first female heads of departments in our film and TV industry – Susie Maizels was one of the leaders of that group of pioneers of Australian women in film.
In 1983, Susie cast a young actress with a lot of promise in a film called
Coloradans love their big-box stores, but since the rise of COVID-19, those stores have sometimes stocked more than bargains. Many major retailers and grocers have already experienced novel coronavirus outbreaks, and more of them appear on the latest weekly update from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment which again includes over 200 fresh entries.
Walmart reports four new outbreaks across the state, while Home Depot has three in a single metro county.
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