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[stahr] / stɑr /




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You think the Lakers star whines too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

They cover most of the Sun, making them especially important for understanding how our star behaves.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Jackson Chourio’s walk-off single in the division series off star closer Mason Miller might have been the most dramatic at-bat in franchise history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The film, which marks the comedian's debut as a director, revives the persona that originated in a British television segment and went on to star in "Da Ali G Show."

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

He regards my teammates’ faces one by one and says, “Here’s our star athlete.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

I hope you can take the time to read their full stories this weekend, but I’ve rounded up my favorite quotes from these cover stars below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The actor not only stars in but adapted Molière’s 1673 comedy about a man with rampant medical anxiety, delivering a sublimely daffy Broadway production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

It happens to rock ’n’ roll stars every day, and they’re in their grave — there were people in their grave that they were honoring when I went.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The 50-year-old Englishman was among a plethora of stars lured by LIV when the Saudi Arabia-backed project was launched in 2022 and was a staunch defender of the circuit when it was criticised.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

And I just sat on the porch looking at all of that land and the mountain and the trees and the stars that weren’t mine at all, and never would be.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

The A24 executives, Ravi Nandan and Sam French, had worked with Fielder on a scripted cringe dramedy series he produced and starred in called “The Curse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

For the CBS series “Picket Fences,” which aired from 1992 to 1996, Skerritt starred as Sheriff Jimmy Brock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

He made his film debut in 1962 alongside a young Robert Redford in War Hunt and years later re-teamed with Redford in the 1992 period drama A River Runs Through It, which starred Brad Pitt.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

More recently Fielder created and starred in “The Rehearsal” on HBO, another comedy docuseries, where he concocted scenarios where people “rehearse” for real events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Trees inside, studded with pink blossoms and starred with lights.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Kyle Smith gives us his take on the parable starring Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman set in a fairy-tale village.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

As well as the collective success of both sides, the individuals starring at PSG and Barcelona are among the world's best.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in her medical testing company Theranos, fuelling a media circus that has been chronicled in books, podcasts and the mini-series The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

A new movie poster for “Wicker,” starring Olivia Colman as a woman who commissions a husband from a local basket weaver, evokes classic romance-novel covers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

She looks like she was plucked right out of an anime, starring an Afro Korean swordswoman.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer


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