Legendary Casting Director Joel Thurm Writes Dynamic New Memoir

Casting director Joel Thurm’s star-making, keen eye for talent is more than clearly evident in some of the most popular feature films and television shows in the history of entertainment.

With the publication of his new, riveting, and straight-out stellar memoir, Sex, Drugs, and Pilot Season: Confession of a Casting Director, Thurm shares his Hollywood secrets, insight, and observations with such panache that, just as as the old adage goes, ‘you just can’t put it down.’

With a vibrant writing style to match his genius wit and unstoppable personality, Thurm shoots from the hippest of the hip and tells it like it is with a stellar slant and unmistakable truth. Thurm knows the deal, and he’s not shy about saying so, from the inside, out.

Make no bones about it: Thurm has played a pertinent position in the careers of countless Tinseltown icons including John Travolta, whom he first cast in the groundbreaking TV-movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. He’s held a winning hand in the placement of future stars in everything from big-screen blockbusters such as Grease, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Airplane! to small-screen gems like The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, Charlie’s Angels, The Cosby Show, Knight Rider, and more.