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  The Anniston Star
Tami Hill slept on the couch in the balcony of the former La Bella Donna restaurant on Noble Street on Thursday.
With all the pressure on the babyfaced star, Kahne finished third in the race and qualified in the 10th and final spot.
The result seemed almost expected from a driver who won a series-best six races in 2006, and maneuvered his way up to eighth in the final points standings.
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  Judy Garland Database film review: "A Star Is Born"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Born in a Trunk" by Leonard Gershe and Roger Edens
So, when, after I sang a song on the set of "A Star Is Born", some of these veterans applauded I knew that it was a spontaneous reaction and that I had made contact with their emotions.
The premiere of Star, on September 29, 1954, was one of the biggest events of its kind that Hollywood had ever seen, with scores of celebrities in attendance.
www.jgdb.com /star.htm   (1922 words)

  
 A Star is Born - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1937, David O. Selznick produced and William A. Wellman directed the first version of A Star is Born, with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.
Mason and Garland in A Star is Born (1954)
The 1954 musical remake, directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Garland and James Mason, is the best known, and in 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Star_Is_Born   (419 words)

  
 A Star Is Born
The story of the making of A Star Is Born (and its restoration) is beautifully told by the late Ronald Haver in his 1988 book “A Star Is Born – The Making of the 1954 Film and Its 1983 Restoration”.
The restored A Star Is Born is a lasting testament to the incredible artistry of Judy Garland, James Mason, George Cukor, and the rest of the dedicated men and women who, in 1953/1954 created a one-of-a-kind film masterpiece.
Scenes shot were for the "Born In A Trunk" sequence: "Judy's Olio"; retakes of the "Second Nightclub"; and retakes of the "Peanut Vendor" sequence.
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 A star is born...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The nuclear processes by which stars generate energy and produce metals are fairly well understood, then; indeed the basic idea was spawned some 60 years ago.
These important moments in the life of a star occur on very short timescales, at least in cosmic terms, decreasing the chance of catching one in the act.
We will also investigate in unprecedented detail stars being born in the so-called star-burst galaxies, where prodigious numbers are still being formed, perhaps as was once common in the early universe.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | A star is born
He was born in the mountains, where only goats and beasts of that kind live - so said Leonardo da Vinci of Giotto, the man he regarded as his greatest predecessor.
The painting was borne through the streets with music and prayers.
Born in the mountains, raised among goats, caught in the rain: Giotto was not, after all, famous for being famous, but for being humble.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1365873,00.html   (1423 words)

  
 A Star Is Born - 1983 Restoration
This is a preview of his incredible book - "A Star Is Born - The Making of the 1954 Film and its 1983 Restoration" - still in print and available from Amazon.com.
This is a personal account of the effort to restore A Star Is Born to the original three-hour film that its director loved so much he could never bear to see the cut version.
George Cukor’s 1954 version of A Star Is Born is legendary for the way it was edited against its director’s wishes.
www.thejudyroom.com /asib/restoration.html   (990 words)

  
 DVDFILE.COM: A STAR IS BORN (1954) review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On its surface A Star Is Born is a glitzy spectacle of a musical; at its heart is a wrenching and poignant drama that looks at the fleeting nature of fame and the self-destructive nature of substance abuse and the toll it takes on the person who loves an addict.
At times the musical and the drama coexist clumsily, and I personally could have done without at least half the songs in the picture in spite of the fact that some of them are actually woven into the narrative of the film.
Originally a CinemaScope picture, A Star Is Born is presented in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1, and in anamorphic widescreen.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/starisborn_1954.html   (918 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- How a Star is Born: Clouds Lift on Missing Link
In fact, the area between stars is laced with gas and small dust particles.
Still, the stars behind Barnard 68 are mostly obscured, their light scattered by dust.
By measuring the actual colors of these stars, after their light had been scattered by dust, the scientists calculated the amount of dust in various parts of the cloud, which also tells them how much gas is present, because gas and dust are known to stick together.
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/star_formation_010116.html   (1067 words)

  
 snarkout: a star was born
Silent film stars had reason to be nervous at the arrival of "movitones", the
But the very first movie star never needed to worry about her accent, because by the time talkies arrived, she was no longer a star at all.
Her pauper's grave was unmarked until 1999, when a benefactor paid to have a gravestone installed.
www.snarkout.org /archives/2003/10/22   (659 words)

  
 www.nobby.de / A Star Is Born (USA 1954) - Directed by George Cukor
The near-autobiographical 18 minute "Born In A Trunk" sequence is one of Judy's finest moments, as is the torch song "The Man That Got Away", which she renders with incredible emotional power.
Mickey Rooney, who was to become a frequent screen partner (nine times in all) in the juvenile phase of her career.
Born to a well-to-do British merchant, Mason studied architecture at Cambridge before deciding to embark on an acting career.
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 A Star is Born   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The star of Houston's traffic control, TranStar is a unique collaborative effort of four governmental agencies designed to aid traffic control and to implement transportation plans.
In fact, legend has it that TranStar was born out of a Dome traffic jam -- a jam that forced former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier to leave his limousine and hoof it to an Oilers' game in time for kickoff.
From this, a star was born, and, today, TranStar benefits the Show in many ways.
www.hlsr.com /hmagazine/00feb/f-star_born.html   (1046 words)

  
 Suck.com: Daily
A Star Is Born is a kind of show business Christmas Carol — a story treatment so durable and iconically arranged that it can withstand godawful remakes beyond number.
The next Star came after the last gasp of the studios, and fittingly enough, it stars the woman whose 1969 megaturd Hello Dolly dealt the studio system its death blow.
As with Joseph Campbell's hero, there are a thousand faces of Star Is Born — from the merely ill-timed (Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio) to the possibly homicidal (Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love).
www.suck.com /daily/2001/01/09   (1086 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | A star is born
The observations indicate that the eruption was triggered by complex interactions in a rotating disk of gas and dust around the star.
It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk and a shroud of gas and dust.
The birth of a star takes several tens of thousands of years and these observations are but a brief snapshot of the process.
spaceflightnow.com /news/n0403/23starbirth   (1457 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
March winds up breaking the dishes Gaynor is responsible for and charming her into leaving the party with him, later painting for her a life of splendor and happiness as a movie star, encouraging her to follow his lead.
A STAR IS BORN captures wonderfully the hustle of Hollywood, especially in scenes which show Gaynor being physically (and painfully) prepared for stardom by having her perfectly acceptable face redone by cosmetic experts, facial experts, eyebrow experts, hair stylists, and makeup magicians--these scenes lack the forced "let's kid Judy" energy of the 1954 version--they're colder.
It profiles the behind-the-scenes machinations of stars and producers, and it shows that, however accidentally, a person of talent, sincerity, and good-heartedness sometimes slips through the corrosive Hollywood system to become a star.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=11479   (486 words)

  
 APOD: January 19, 1997 - From Eagle's EGGs A Star Is Born   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Perhaps the most famous astronomical image in recent years reveals newborn stars upon pillars of gas and dust - uncovered as researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope to explore the Eagle Nebula in 1995.
These pillars, dubbed "elephant trunks," are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas gravitationally contracts to form stars.
At each pillars' end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density gas to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed.
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 Amazon.com: DVD: A Star Is Born (1937)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A STAR IS BORN is the story of an innocent young woman who rises to fame in Hollywood.
Her movie star husband helps her get started in her career while he is already on the skids because of his alcoholic behavior.
The 1937 original version of "A Star Is Born" is a moving, observant drama about an aging, fading movie matinee idol, Norman Maine, played by Fredric March, who discovers and marries a struggling young actress, Esther Blodgett, portrayed by the lovely Janet Gaynor.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305010641?v=glance   (1635 words)

  
 a star is born
A Star is Born (1954) is one of the classic Hollywood musicals.
A Star is Born is the superb 1954 musical, acclaimed by many as the greatest The third version was a poorly made A Star is Born (1976) with Barbra
Then, in 1954, she returned to the screen, giving perhaps her finest performance, in A Star Is Born (1954).
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 DVD Savant Review: A Star is Born (1937)
Yep, it's true there were a zillion babes arriving in LA to get their big chance, and one of the better early scenes has the receptionist of a talent agency showing Gaynor a busy telephone exchange where operators repeating 100 times a minute that there are no jobs available.
No wonder Hollywood ate up A Star is Born as the first affirmation of the town as a worthwhile place with some worthwhile people.
Image's DVD of A Star is Born is a good transfer taken from a Technicolor print in reasonable shape.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1445star.html   (1406 words)

  
 Three Movie Buffs Review A Star is Born (1976) Starring: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The 1976 version of A Star is Born does both.
Before you know it, her star is rising and his is fading.
www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=starisborn1976   (409 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: A Star Is Born (1954)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The story is a show-biz classic: He (James Mason) is a major movie star who is past his prime and on the way down; she (Garland) is an aspiring singer who, with his help, becomes a bigger star than he was.
The film A STAR IS BORN, the 1954 Judy Garland musical for Warner Bros., has been through nearly as many trials and tribulations as any real-life movie-star wannabe to maintain its reputation and realism.
Although musical numbers abound, A STAR IS BORN is not typical of the genre, for the music does not form the primary structure of the film.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- A STAR IS BORN
A STAR IS BORN was produced by Warner Bros. and with a great deal of fanfare; the movie marked the return of the legendary Judy Garland to the screen after a four-year absence.
A STAR IS BORN tells the story of Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland), an aspiring singer working with a band in Hollywood.
A STAR IS BORN is very much a starring vehicle for Judy Garland, but Cukor does get the very best performances from both of his stars.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/star-is-born-dvd.htm   (1374 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Convention Special: Obama: A Star Is Born
A star has been born, Like Shaq he will be known by one name, Obama.
My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya.
She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas.
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 A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star is Born is the superb 1954 musical, acclaimed by many as the greatest Hollywood musical ever made.
It is a remake of William Wellman's original 1937 film by the same name that starred Janet Gaynor.
The third version was a poorly made A Star is Born (1976) with Barbra Streisand as a pop singer named Esther Hoffman and Kris Kristofferson as John Norman Howard - a rock star.
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 A Star is Born
A Star is Born combines an 8-pointed star with a mitered background to create a lovely ornament or box top.
Thread 1 is used for the center star.
Thread 2 or Thread 3 is used for the Double Straight Cross in the center of the star.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Star Is Born at Epinions.com
The project was a remake of the A Star is Born (1937).
Certainly not the 1976 remake starring Barbara Streissand, although "Evergreen" did deserve the Academy Award for Best Song that was somehow denied "The Man That Got Away".
In all, A Star is Born received six Academy Award nominations.
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 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Pop Idol - A Star Is Born [2002]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Starring: Ant McPartlin (Pres/Narr), Declan Donnelly (Pres/Narr), et al.
This video is basically a compilation of performances from the show, which also includes Ant and Dec presenting the wannabes, and although you can't help but love those cheeky Newcastle lads, their introductions become annoyingly repetitive.
Pop Idol, A star is born, is a chance to relive some of the fantastic performances in the final ten weeks of the tv show that has gripped the nation.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000065C0M   (1095 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: A Star Is Born (Restored/Rm) ( [Live] [Soundtrack]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Though it is credited to Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, A Star Is Born is in effect the soundtrack album to the motion picture of the same name, a rock-oriented retelling of the story that had been filmed three times before.
Nevertheless, spurred by the hit single and the box office success of the film, A Star Is Born was the best-selling album of Barbra Streisand's career up to this point.
A STAR IS BORN is at it's best during Streisand's seven numbers, which feature astonishingly powerful vocals that resonate in the memory even long after the disc has ended.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005V3XL   (1301 words)

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