A STAR IS BORN (1954) ***1/2 The music is great, but I like it even better on the record where it only goes on for 45 minutes. Judy Garland absolutely rules, and James Mason would have been awe-inspiring as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show twenty years later. Handsome, decadent, classy, so lost. The definitive analysis of the glories, pressures, absurdities, and ultimately shallowness of Hollywood. In the final scenes, even before I knew what was going to happen, Mason in the darkness reminded me of Kurt Cobain.
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