Often on TV or in magazines we see the rich and famous: successful film stars, singers, and sports people.
Perhaps that’s why the rise of the film star made makeup more popular.
There, bathed in light amid the surrounding gloom, like a film star in a disk of brightness, sat Scout Harris upon a grocery box surrounded by fallen sandwiches and with a goodly bowl securely held between his diminutive knees.
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If that is to be the case, it would be better to employ afilmstarin that capacity.
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I am one of those virile, handsome men,filmstar-looking men, who never offer any payment for things of this kind.
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There was nofilmstarpresent or election for office of any sort going on.
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I cannot remember her name, but she told me that she was named after afilmstar.
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He had never heard of afilmstarand had taken no interest in anything in which most ordinary people were interested.
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One rock star orfilmstarwith a cigarette in his hand is worth more than 100 tobacco-advertising billboards.
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When we consider the wages of the average working man, we find that thefilmstarhas the advantage of two hundred times his purchasing power.
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Thefilmstaror industrial tycoon earning many thousands a year might receive an award which was disproportionately and astonishingly high if no limit of earnings were included.
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There are certain sections of the community who have persisted in surrounding the miner with all the idiotic technique with which they treat afilmstarof a glamour girl.
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In any event, not a single linen sheet is free of tax—and the film magnate and thefilmstarhave to have sheets as well as blankets.
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It is no use saying that it is unfair competition if a man has the money and wants to engage afilmstar, a producer or buy a story.
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He appeared on the stage for several years and then became an earlyfilmstar.
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She was a pleasure craft, a war hero, a working schooner, afilmstarand a transporter of essential cargoes in dangerous waters.
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He made a name for himself as a martial artsfilmstarin the 1970s and 80s.
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After the war he became afilmstarthrough his work both as a stunt pilot and as an actor.
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