Star 80
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Bob Fosse...a "special thanks" credit. The show received a Tony for best musical, twelve years after the man had passed on. His final film, 1983's Star 80 was a controversial biopic about slain Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten. It evoked mixed critical... In this article: Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Ann Reinking, All That Jazz, Academy Awards, Martin Gottfried, Broadway, Pippin, Fred Astaire, and Sweet Charity |
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Dorothy Stratten
...in the 1981 television film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story. Stratten's story was portrayed in Bob Fosse's 1983 film Star 80 starring Mariel Hemingway (Stratten) and Eric Roberts (Snider). The movie was filmed in the...
In this article: Louise Stratten, Dorothy Stratten, Peter Bogdanovich, Playboy, They All Laughed, Hugh Hefner, Bryan Adams, Playmate of the Year, and Star 80
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Celebrity Mound | November 03, 2009
Check Out Mariel Hemingway's Daughter Dree In A Topless Photoshoot
...supporting Actress. She also posed on the cover of Playboy and later played the role of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten in the 1983 film Star 80. She appeared in another of Allen's films, Deconstructing Harry, in 1997. It seems a lot to...
In this article: Mariel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Playboy, Woody Allen, Manhattan, Oscar, Nobel Prize, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Harry Potter
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Centennial School
..."They All Laughed", before she was murdered by her estranged husband. Stratten was portrayed twice in biographies of her life, by Jamie Lee Curtis in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, and by Mariel Hemingway in "Star 80".
In this article: Centennial School, Craig Forrest, Dorothy Stratten, Centennial High School, Matthew Good, NBA Championship, Juno Award, and School District 43 Coquitlam
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Paul Snider
...Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story had Jamie Lee Curtis portraying Stratten and Bruce Weitz as Snider. Bob Fosse's 1983 feature film Star 80 was the other film that dramatized the incident. Mariel Hemingway played Stratten, and Eric...
In this article: Dorothy Stratten, Playboy, Vancouver, Suicide, Dairy Queen, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Fosse, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Mariel Hemingway
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Star 80
Star 80 is a 1983 film about the true story of Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film was shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles,...
In this article: Star 80, Hugh Hefner, Peter Bogdanovich, Eric Roberts, Dorothy Stratten, Bob Fosse, Village Voice, and Golden Globe
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Deborah Geffner
...she filmed concurrently with performing in A Chorus Line on Broadway (role of Kristine.) She worked again with Fosse in his movie Star 80. She also starred in the TV movie Legs '' with Gwen Verdon and Sheree North. She has recently been...
In this article: Deborah Geffner, Bob Fosse, Oscar, Holly Hunter, A Chorus Line, Christopher Lloyd, Gwen Verdon, Sheree North, Star 80, and Living Out Loud
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PopMatters | June 25, 2009
Dominick Dunne: After the Party (Review)
...by gunshot by a maniacal control freak who happened to be her husband, her tale immortalized is in Bob Fosse's final picture, 1984's Star 80. Extras featured in this DVD amount to interviews conducted - separately - with de Garis and...
In this article: Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair, DVD, Tina Brown, Graydon Carter, John Sweeney, and Hollywood
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Cinematical | March 05, 2009
Discuss: Who Should Be the Next Comeback?
...Roberts. It started with young adoration for Nobody's Fool and Best of the Best, and became critical appreciation after seeing films like Star 80 and Greenwich, before becoming despair over projects like the Doctor Who TV special. He's been...
In this article: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Michael Keaton, Hollywood, Kevin Kline, Emilio Estevez, Winona Ryder, and Jackie Earle Haley
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Entertainment Weekly | February 20, 2009
Mickey Rourke: Cast Eric Roberts!
...it was hard to stop thinking about his comments about Roberts. Julia's older brother was damn good as the creepy husband in 1983's Star 80 and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing an escaped con in 1985's Runaway...
In this article: Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Oscar, The Dark Knight, Darren Aronofsky, Heroes, Runaway Train, and Star 80
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | March 04, 2008
Sam Rockwell The A.V. Club
...of the anti-heroes from the Golden Age of American Cinema in the '70s, characters like Travis Bickle [in Taxi Driver], Eric Roberts in Star 80, [Jack] Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, Martin Sheen in Badlands, stuff like that. Or John Savage in...
In this article: David Gordon Green, Sam Rockwell, Snow Angels, Joshua, The A.V. Club, Drew Barrymore, Chuck Barris, Christianity, and God
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Star 80 is a 1983 film about the true story of Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film was shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California; the death scene re-enactment was filmed in the actual apartment of the murder. Star 80 is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article "Death of a Playmate" by Teresa Carpenter. The film's title was taken from the vanity license plates of Paul Snider.
The fictionalized director Aram Nicholas is based on Stratten's real-life lover, Peter Bogdanovich. Hugh Hefner sued the producers of the film because he did not like the way he was portrayed, perhaps in part because the article the film was based on suggested that Stratten was as much a victim of Hefner and Bogdanovich as she was of Snider. Hefner also later sued Bogdanovich for the negative portrayals in Bogdanovich's book about Stratten, The Killing of the Unicorn. In a later interview in 1998, Hefner stated that he still disliked the film on account that it was a poor portrayal of Dorothy Stratten, although he did commend Eric Roberts for "an excellent portrayal of the sick husband who murdered her".
Star 80 is not the first movie to be based on the murder of Dorothy Stratten. In 1981, there was television film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story in which Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed Stratten and Bruce Weitz portrayed Paul Snider.
- Name:
- Star 80
- Country of Origin:
- U.S.A.
- Release Date:
- November 10, 1983
- Directed By:
- Bob Fosse
- Produced by:
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- Kenneth Utt
- Wolfgang Glattes
- Starring:
- Distributed By:
- Warner Bros.
- Length:
- 100 min.
- Language:
- English
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