Are We Witnessing The Death Of Movie Stars?
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
They were in the words of NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello "American royalty".
But in an age of Disney and Marvel, the movie star appears to have been eclipsed by the franchises in which they appear.
NPR critics Mondello and Aisha Harris breakdown the decline and seemingly disappearance of the classic movie star and what that means for Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | You know how to whistle, don't you see? |
| 0:04.0 | You just put your lips together and blow. |
| 0:07.0 | HISTORY! |
| 0:09.0 | Bogey, Bacal, Brando, you know movie stars when you hear them. |
| 0:14.0 | The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm also just a girl. |
| 0:21.0 | Standing in front of you. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm not a girl. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm not a girl. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm also just a girl. |
| 0:29.0 | Standing in front of a boy. |
| 0:31.0 | Asking him to love her. |
| 0:33.0 | King Kong, he got set on me! |
| 0:36.0 | Pitt, Julia Denzel. |
| 0:39.0 | And with others, it's an image, Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate, the breeze billowing her white dress. |
| 0:46.0 | Do you feel the breeze from the subway? |
| 0:49.0 | Isn't it delicious? |
| 0:53.0 | A young Tom Cruise, in brief, sliding across the living room floor to the sounds of Bob Seeger. |
| 1:08.0 | Or Audrey Hepburn, stepping outside of a taxi in Blacksadden, toward a shellshades. |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, when I think about movie stars, I think about someone who feels larger than life. |
| 1:19.0 | There's usually some sort of like, mystique or mystery, I think, to a movie star. |
| 1:24.0 | MPR's pop culture Happy Hour host Aisha Harris has been thinking a lot about movie stars lately, |
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