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Article: Shelf life; When Hollywood turns the camera on itself.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2000
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"Bowfinger" isn't the first movie to go behind the scenes of Tinseltown, and it certainly won't be the last. Here are other movies that make us want to say, "Hooray for Hollywood."
- A Star is Born (1937, PG; 1954, PG; 1974, R): There was little wrong with director William Wellman's Oscar-winning original version of this classic about a washed-up actor (Fredric March) and the starry-eyed Hollywood hopeful (Janet Gaynor) who marries him. So were two remakes really necessary? Well, yes and no. Director George Cukor might have done Wellman one better by adding some memorable Harold Arlen-Ira Gershwin songs and Judy Garland as the ingenue. But the only memorable ...