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.

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She should quit the Elton John get ups...

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That's her godfather so I doubt she's stopping some of that anytime soon.

Based on the trailer, this looks damn good. I’m a sucker for Gaga though. She is the vocal talent of her generation and does things her own way. She did resort to some bizarre theatrics early on but she seems to have settled in and is now letting her talent speak for her. Glad to see her getting these types of opportunities.

I was thinking the same thing

Going to be the best movie of the year.

Looks like a blend of the original with Tender mercies. Haven't Looked forward to a film more thsn this in years.

Never was a big fan of musicals, but La La Land kind of warmed me up to them. This looks like it could be good. Bradley Cooper really is money these days and it's good to see him take on better and better roles.

Gaga is actually pretty decent looking when she isn't dressed up like a tranny. She has some Netflix documentary out called Five Foot Two, with a great topless pool scene worth Googling. Seems like she takes really care of herself and definitely doesn't skip leg day at the gym.

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Never was a big fan of musicals, but La La Land kind of warmed me up to them. This looks like it could be good

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Aside from the first half hour or so, Lala Land is much more movie with a couple song in it than musical.


And I also wouldn't really consider This film, nor the 70s version a musical. Yes, it has a lot of songs in it, but it's far more of a song performance movie than the whole "break out into song" type of shite that I really despise.

BTW, here is the Christopherson/Babs version trailer.... Cooper rally really paid a lot of attetion the vibe that film had with his own.

Hell even the stadium musical scenes are both in Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium I think. I guarantee that's no
coicncidence

LINK

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Is there anything Lady Gaga CANT do?

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FIFY

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Judy Garland isn’t around, after all.

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It colors these movies when you realize what it takes to be a star in such an industry...music or movies.

She might have been one of the original #metoo.

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Garland, one of the world’s most famous actresses, was groped and harassed repeatedly by Louis B. Mayer, the famed producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.

“Everyone knows about the Hollywood casting couches,” Clarke said in an interview with ABC News, “but nobody thought that Judy had been subjected to any sexual pressure from the higher-ups at MGM.”

It started around the time Garland was playing Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” She was 16.

…Between the ages of sixteen and twenty, Judy herself was to be approached for sex — and approached again and again. “Don’t think they all didn’t try,” she said.

Top on the list was Mayer himself. Whenever he complimented her on her voice — she sang from the heart, he said — Mayer would invariably place his hand on her left breast to show just where her heart was. “I often thought I was lucky,” observed Judy, “that I didn’t sing with another part of my anatomy.” That scenario, a compliment followed by a grope, was repeated many times until, grown up at last, Judy put a stop to it. “Mr. Mayer, don’t you ever, ever do that again,” she finally had the courage to say. “I just will not stand for it.”

Another executive — Judy did not identify him — summoned her to his office, as he had summoned so many other, more glamorous Metro stars. Eschewing any pretense of small talk, he demanded that she, too, have sex with him. “Yes or no, right now — that was his style,” Judy recalled. When she refused … he began screaming. “Listen you — before you go, I want to tell you something. I’ll ruin you and I can do it. I’ll break you if it’s the last thing I do.”

She abused drugs and alcohol and died in 1969 of an apparent accidental overdose of barbiturates. She was 47 years old.

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I assumed Lady Gaga was a whack job until I heard her interviewed on Howard Stern. She came across as really down to earth. Count me as a fan.