Hiring De Niro turned out to be a casting coup because he knew nearly every actor in New York.

It was, as Sydney Pollack says, "a casting coup," but one that would eventually boomerang for Chopra.

Most DVD's would carry on at length about such a casting coup.

The eventual confrontation between these two would have been shocking anyhow, but it is made all the more so by this casting coup.

It's a casting coup that fits the sentiment of the play.

Now such a casting coup could only take place in the imagination.

They're all kind of giddy over the casting coups.

Mother, she who had seen so much, wanted one last triumph; one final casting coup.

Given such a casting coup, the Forum's artistic director, Peter J. Loewy, has not been otherwise inspired.

Donna Isaacson calls it the "noodge" factor and attributes one of the casting coups of her career to it.