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  • We're here today to consider one Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, a man who I intend to prove has seriously damaged his big-star credibility with his manic off-screen behavior.

    With 'Knight and Day' in theaters, it's time for ... Tom Cruise Court 2010

  • It was a big-star vehicle of the kind Hollywood specializes in.

    This Was a Movie Project? 2009

  • It was a big-star vehicle of the kind Hollywood specializes in.

    This Was a Movie Project? 2009

  • If you all remember, she was the first big-star advocate back in 1993, when it failed; therefore, she is working on it.

    Hillary Using Washington Post "Cleavage" Article To Raise Bucks 2009

  • It was a big-star vehicle of the kind Hollywood specializes in.

    This Was a Movie Project? 2009

  • It was a big-star vehicle of the kind Hollywood specializes in.

    This Was a Movie Project? 2009

  • The havoc in the movie business was evident in April, when the release schedule was packed with a bevy of big-star vehicles hoping to beat the onslaught of summer blockbusters.

    Glut of Films Hits Hollywood 2008

  • He was also a bit like that other self-promoting producer-director, Otto Preminger, in that he tried to push the boundaries of what kind of content was acceptable in American movies; but whereas Preminger basically made high-toned prestige pictures that happened to deal with touchy subjects, Aldrich was out to push the envelope when it came to how lurid or gruesome or amoral a big-star, mainstream movie could be.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • Some of this was probably just opportunism; Mad Magazine did a parody of Aldrich's Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte where they pointed out that movies like Charlotte and Baby Jane were just big-star versions of the kind of bad "B" movies kids were seeing in drive-ins.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • But really cool-looking, big-star ensemble cast, but no one ` s playing a real character.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2005 2005

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