Not Necessarily The Nose: 'A Star Is Born' (Again)

We now have no fewer than four big screen versions of A Star Is Born.

There's the 1937 original, the Judy Garland/James Mason remake, the Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson remake... and now's there's the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper remake, which is directed by Cooper, and which might just take the fall movie season by storm.

This hour: a Noseish (but not quite actually The Nose) look at the phenomenon of A Star Is Born.

Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:

• Why Taylor Swift's political activism has a better chance of success than Kanye West's
• A Banksy Painting 'Self-Destructed' After Being Auctioned for $1.1 Million
• Please Let the Giant Skull Asteroid End Us All
• Audrey Wells, 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and 'The Hate U Give' Writer, Dies at 58
• Relax, Ladies. Don’t Be So Uptight. You Know You Want It
• Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
• LeBron Came to Hollywood. So Did the LeBron Media Machine.
• Cleveland wore the Chief Wahoo logo on Indigenous Peoples' Day, sigh
• Kanye West coming to White House, after Trump disses Taylor Swift, underscores celebrification of politics
• Here Are Some Of The Wild Things Kanye West Said To Trump At The White House
• Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson and Def Leppard are nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who got snubbed?
• If a Moon Has a Moon, Is Its Moon Called a Moonmoon?

GUESTS:

• Jim Chapdelaine - An Emmy Award-winning musician, producer, composer, and recording engineer; and a patient advocate for people with rare cancers (@jimchap)
• Lara Herscovitch - Singer, songwriter, poet, performer, and social worker (@laraherscovitch)
• David Sims - Staff writer at The Atlantic; cohost of Blank Check with Griffin and David (@davidlsims)

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.