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Why What Price Hollywood Was the Actual First Version of A Star is Born
Before Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, Judy Garland and James Mason, or Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, there were Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman. The movie was called What Price Hollywood, but it really was the first version of A Star is Born, the classic tale of how stardom isn’t […]
Continue readingMaestro: First Look At Bradley Cooper’s Stunning Transformation For Leonard Bernstein Biopic
You’ve got to admire Bradley Cooper’s chutzpah. When Steven Spielberg offered Cooper the lead role in his planned Leonard Bernstein biopic, Cooper presented a counter-offer. He’d take the role of the legendary American conductor on the condition that Spielberg would step back to produce, allowing Cooper to direct. Oh, and he wanted to write the […]
Continue reading‘Maestro’ First Look: Bradley Cooper Transforms Into Leonard Bernstein in ‘A Star Is Born’ Follow-Up
Bradley Cooper is fully transformed in the first look at his Netflix-backed biographical drama “Maestro,” which serves as his directorial follow-up to Oscar winner “A Star Is Born.” Set photos from the movie released by the streaming giant depict Cooper opposite co-star Carey Mulligan. Cooper stars in “Maestro” as esteemed Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein, with […]
Continue reading‘Maestro’ First Look: Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan In Netflix’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic
One of the biggest Oscar snubs in recent history came in 2016 with Bradley Cooper’s stunning directorial debut, “A Star Is Born.” While the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Cooper, the major achievement of the film, Cooper knocking it out of the park for his debut […]
Continue readingInside the SAG Awards: Spider-Man Loves ‘Succession,’ a Marathon Bathroom Run and Covid Car Tests
Meryl Streep chatted with Venus Williams. Lady Gaga reunited with Bradley Cooper, her co-star from “A Star is Born.” Andrew Garfield and Jamie Dornan fanned out for Cousin Greg (also known as Nicholas Braun) from “Succession.” And Will Smith, as warm as ever, mingled with practically everybody.Yes, it was like old times in Hollywood at […]
Continue readingJoan Didion, A Star Is Born Screenwriter And Legendary Author, Has Died At 87
Joan Didion, the prolific author, screenwriter, and journalist who co-wrote the screenplays for “A Star is Born,” “True Confessions,” and more has died at the age of 87 in her Manhattan home. As a journalist, Didion reported on counter-culture and social movements; along with writers like Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S. Thompson, she helped usher […]
Continue readingJoan Didion Dies: Journalist, Novelist, and Screenwriter Was 87
Joan Didion, the journalist, novelist, and screenwriter of such films as the 1976 “A Star Is Born” died Thursday at her home in Manhattan at the age of 87. The New York Times reported that the cause was Parkinson’s disease.Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934. The fifth-generation Californian found some of her most important […]
Continue readingLady Gaga Looks Back on ‘Sopranos’ Acting Debut: ‘I Can See Exactly What I Did Wrong’
Long before she became an Oscar winner for Best Original Song for “A Star Is Born,” and now a possible Best Actress Oscar contender for “House of Gucci,” a teenage Lady Gaga starred in “The Sopranos.” She had a one-off guest role in the Season 3 episode “The Telltalle Moozadell” as “Girl at Swimming Pool […]
Continue reading‘Nightmare Alley’ Review: Guillermo del Toro Taps Bradley Cooper’s Dark Side in This Bravura Carnival Noir
The world is one big carnival, and we’re all just suckers — or “marks,” in the parlance of the traveling grifters so effective at fleecing those poor rubes who are not with it — in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.” A perfect match of material to auteur, William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the […]
Continue readingLady Gaga Details ‘House of Gucci’ Method Acting, Using Accent for 9 Months: ‘I Never Broke’
Last week’s “House of Gucci” official trailer premiere stirred up even more buzz for what is one of the year’s most anticipated films. The film is notable for being Lady Gaga’s second leading film role. Her first, Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” won her the Oscar for Best Original Song and garnered her an […]
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