While Honest wasn't the first consumer products outfit to market itself as safer than its predecessors, it has garnered a lot of attention from customers, investors and acquirers — as well as been a target for critics, it says — because of its star co-founder, actress Jessica Alba.
Scandal has become a global phenomenon, not least because of its star Kerry Washington, who was a shoo-in for the part, Lee reveals.
A more recent victor of everything in sight back home, David Auburn's Proof, was a Donmar sellout on its London debut in 2002 solely because of its star, Gwyneth Paltrow; few actually gave a fig about the play.
"Big Fish," which was adapted from a movie and had been highly anticipated because of its star, the Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, had its worst week of ticket sales since performances began, as the show slides from poor reviews in October to a closing date of Dec. 29.
And yet, despite its oddness, "Ghost Dog" has a wild-card commercial potential -- both because of its star, Mr. Whitaker, and because of the film's highly bankable soundtrack, created by the hip-hop master the RZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Primarily because of its star, Teyana Taylor.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that, to a certain degree, these people who called Song to Song a "Humiliating Wreck of a Movie" are correct: despite, or perhaps because of, its star-studded-ness, it is profoundly humble; humiliating, even, for a star like Christian Bale, who was cut from the film entirely.
As in the 1950's, this Real team does not simply win; it entertains on a grand scale because of its stars' technical skills and creative instincts.
His next play, Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959-60), ran a little longer (two months) mainly because of its stars, Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes.
Also intriguing, mainly because of its stars, was Guillaume Nicloux's Valley of Love, which reunites Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu for the first time in 35 years.
