Film adaptations of movie musicals have almost always favored stars who might not be best for the roles; Janet Leigh in Bye Bye Birdie is a great example.
Raines, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, has his detractors, including journalists who believe he is arrogant and too pugilistic, and that he favors "stars" in a newsroom where starring roles are scarce.
Favored Balto Star Wins HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 14, (Associated Press) -- Heavily favored Balto Star led virtually every step and reinforced his Kentucky Derby credentials with a third straight impressive performance, an easy victory today in the $500,000 Arkansas Derby.
Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the book on Julian Assange Matt Damonn is favored to star.
Sharon Gannon and David Life, the founders of the favored rock star hangout, Jivamukti Yoga in Manhattan, came to teach and stump for animal rights.
About 25 percent of Tunisians are illiterate, a lower rate than many countries in the area, and several voters said they expressed their choice by marking the box next to the logo of the party they favored: a star and bird for the Islamic party, or an olive tree for a liberal rival.
The State Department agrees, but President Reagan and some advisers, particularly Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, favor Star Wars, a space-based missile defense concept.
On Friday's broadcast of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the "A Simple Favor" star revealed exactly what she said during the Los Angeles meet-and-greet to make the former president keel over in laughter.
"TIME OF FAVOR," starring Aki Avni, Michal, and Assi Dayan.
The worst include Captain America, a souvenir-obsessed hysteric, and Encino Man, a huge and dangerously dimwitted former football star favored by the battalion's ambitious and at times reckless commander, Lt. Col. Stephen Ferrando Chance Kellyy), known as Godfather because of his raspy voice, a result of throat cancer.
