From "The Nerd Hunter," Stephen Rodrick's profile of Hollywood casting director Allison Jones in The New Yorker (April 6, 2015):

Jones returned to California and enrolled in the producer program at the American Film Institute.  One of her early assignments was to cast another student's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's short story "The Potato Elf."  She showed me a file containing head shots and film memos from the project.  "I rejected Anjelica Huston," Jones said.  "At that time, she was John Huston's daughter, Jack Nicholson's girlfriend, and a model.  That was her claim to fame.  Thirty years later, I still don't know what I'm doing."

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