Praise for A STAR IS REBORN " Robert Hofler conducts a revealing backstage joyride of another classic film phenomenon with A Star Is Reborn . His signature blend of insight, sharply observed detail, and love of the movies illuminates the often brilliant, sometimes reckless artistry and studio decision-making that go into four generations of one of Hollywood's greatest epics." --Bob Spitz , author of Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child "A Star is Born has always been a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of stardom (and also the lack of it), but at the same time it's served as a vehicle to catapult various dazzling women into greater fame. Critic-author Robert Hofler pulls the tinsel even farther back and gives us a detailed peek at the way each Star is Born envisioned the Hollywood dream machine, both on screen and off. Great job--there's not a fact that got away." --Michael Musto , author of Manhattan on the Rocks " Every Hollywood generation can't seem to resist gazing at itself in the cracked mirror of A Star Is Born, the love story of a doomed fading star and the talented young woman who worships him yet cannot rescue him from self-destruction. Robert Hofler jumps nimbly and authoritatively from What Price Hollywood? , the little-remembered 1932 original, to its four A Star Is Born reincarnations, capturing the raging ambition, narcissism and vulnerability at the heart of Hollywood's obsession with itself." --Glenn Frankel , author of Shooting Midnight Cowboy " The many lives of the four screen versions of A Star Is Born are explored with stunning detail and skillful analysis in Robert Hofler's exhaustively researched and hypnotically readable A Star is Reborn: Gaga & Streisand & Gaynor & Garland .
The plot of the rising star and her falling star lover may be a Hollywood trope, but Hofler takes the reader down lively side paths, reveals, and entertaining tangents that literally every page has something new. It's a must-read not only for fans of the movies but also for friends of Dorothy." --Nat Segaloff , author of The Exorcist Legacy.