re: A Star Is Born Trailer Released

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Hollywood sure does like this movie.

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Hollywood sure does love itself ... and therein lies the motivation for four different iterations of this tired-old pathologically egocentric storyline.

And it will not be the last. This script has become an ever evolving shrine unto itself ... a marriage of the music industry with hollywood done every two or three or four decades to show the public how painful and flawed their industries are. A vehicle to illustrate how much they sacrifice and the demons they must overcome in order to excel at their craft and five their public the fix we all crave at the actor's and singer's expense ... or in that rare case of the extremely talented, the man or woman who does both very well - they are extra-burdened, extra-tortured, extra-deep.

Watched the Mason-Garland version as a teenager and suffered through the Kristopherson-Striesand version in graduate school .... I'm not paying for it again. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga cam pound sand. Both are incredibly talented but too self serving for my tastes .... which probably makes them both perfect for these two specific roles.

I wanna see Cooper crash.