Tag: A Star Is Born
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Bradley Cooper’s Singing Voice Sold Lady Gaga On A Star Is Born
Looking back on 2018’s “A Star is Born,” it’s crazy how much it blew up. This award-winning remake took the world by storm in part due to the successful chemistry and performances delivered by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. In the film, we follow seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Cooper) who chances upon struggling artist Ally…
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Bradley Cooper Might Have Quit Acting If It Weren’t For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza
Bradley Cooper has had an unusual career. He managed to break out of being typecast as what IndieWire dubbed in 2015 “weaselly boyfriends or best friends in mainstream comedies” to become one of the most celebrated, multi-faceted talents in Hollywood today. Now set to star in Steven Spielberg’s “Bullitt” movie, and with his second directorial…
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The Saddest Movies, from ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ to ‘On the Count of Three’
If watching a movie can be compared to taking your emotions for a walk, then sad films challenges audiences with a full-on sprint. Since before Rose said goodbye to Jack or even Bambi lost his mother, tragedy has played a vital role in cinema’s most well-loved stories of every ilk.For romance, the possibility of heartbreak…
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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…
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Maestro: 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…
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‘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…
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‘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…
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Inside 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…
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Joan 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…
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Joan 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…