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The Star (Jamaica)
A star is a luminous astronomical object. Star, The Star or STAR may also refer to: Shapes and symbols * Star (polygon), a geometric shape with acute points arranged radially * Star (glyph), a typographical symbol * Star (heraldry), star-like shapes used in heraldry * Star (classification), a rating system for hotels, movies, or other products * Star (sport badge), on a team uniform, representing titles won Arts and entertainment * Star (person) or celebrity ** Movie star, a person famous for performing in films Fictional entities * Patrick Star, a character in the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe * Star (Marvel Comics), the name of three fictional characters in Marvel Comics * Star, a star-shaped puppet in ''The Good Night Show'' and its animated spin-off '' Nina's World'' * Star, a character in the game ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' * Star Butterfly, a character in the Disney animated series ''Star vs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sky, night, but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed stars, fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterism (astronomy), asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated to stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye, all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life star formation, begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Its stellar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (1982 Film)
Star is a 1982 Indian Bollywood movie, directed by Vinod Pande, starring Kumar Gaurav, Rati Agnihotri, Raj Kiran, Saeed Jaffrey, A.K. Hangal, Dina Pathak and Padmini Kolhapure. It had a very successful soundtrack released as '' Star/Boom Boom'', produced by Biddu and sung by Nazia Hassan and Zoheb Hassan. Despite popular soundtracks, the movie flopped at the box office. Nazia and Zoheb were offered the chance to act in this movie by Biddu, but they refused to act and chose singing. Plot Dev Kumar Verma comes from a middle-class family and must find employment to support his parents. Dev, however, has set his mind upon becoming a music sensation like Elvis Presley. He loses his job because of this and refuses to work until he gets a job to his liking, much to his parents' dismay and his brother, Shiv Kumar Verma. Dev gets employment at Charlie's Disco, where he meets Maya and falls in love with her. When Charlie's Disco's competitor, Rana, finds out about Dev, he wants to hire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (Milky Album)
Milky is an Italian dance music production group consisting of producers Giordano Trivellato and Giuliano Sacchetto, with Italian singer Giuditta serving as their lead singer on their album ''Star''. Although Giuditta Gazza was the singer on the recordings, a model, the Egyptian-born and German-raised Sabrina Elahl, was used for the music video for the " Just the Way You Are" single. The same model was used for the cover. Elahl's voice did not appear on any of Milky's recordings, where all songs were sung by Giuditta. Giuditta can be seen on the " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StAR (Jan Garbarek Album)
''StAR'' is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, featuring Miroslav Vitouš and Peter Erskine, released on the ECM label in 1991.ECM discography accessed September 30, 2011 Reception The review by Rick Anderson awarded the album 4 stars and states "The tunes may be somewhat interchangeable, but the music is virtuosic, thoughtful and thoroughly lovely, at times heart-tugging. Makes you wish these three would get together more often"Anderson,Allmusic Review accessed September 30, 2011 Track listing [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (Belly Album)
''Star'' is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Belly, released on January 25, 1993. Composition Along with alternative rock and jangle pop, the songs on ''Star'' also dig into "haunting", "avant" folk rock. Tanya Donelly was credited with pushing dream pop's boundaries by "trimming away its pretensions" while keeping its "trancy harmonies". A "distinct post-punk quality" has also been seen in the music, alongside some country and Spaghetti Western influences. Release ''Star'' was released on January 25, 1993 and was an unexpected success. On February 21, 1994, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of at least 500,000 units. The single "Feed the Tree" became a number one hit on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart, as well as a surprise pop hit, peaking at number 95 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in the late spring of 1993. The music video for "Feed the Tree" was a smash buzz bin MTV hit, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (702 Album)
''Star'' is the third studio album from American R&B group 702. It was released by Motown on November 19, 2002 in the United States. The album peaked at number forty-five on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and produced the singles “Star” and "I Still Love You". Critical reception Andy Kellman of Allmusic rated the album two and a half stars out of five and gave the work a rather dismissive review, stating that "it continues in the group's tradition of being able to deliver a couple of solid singles surrounded by middling to fair album tracks." ''PopMatters'' thought the album was dated and "trapped in a time warp" and that "It wants to be pre- Mary J. Blige hip-hop and R&B with some notable exceptions". Overall, they praised both Mario Winans and the Neptunes contributions to the album, and felt they managed "to create some haphazard hits here, lack of creativity aside". Sal Cinquemani from '' Slant Magazine'' was mixed in his review. Cinquemani praised the albums first half of mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Mario
(also known as and ) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise. At least one ''Super Mario'' game has been released for every major Nintendo video game consoles, Nintendo video game console. There are more than 20 games in the series. The ''Super Mario'' games are set primarily in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, typically with Mario as the player character. He is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and often by other members of the ''Mario'' cast. As platform games, they involve the player character running and jumping across platforms and atop enemies in themed level (video gaming), levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario and Luigi Damsel in distress, rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser (character), Bowser. The first game in the series, ''Super Mario Bros.'', released for the Nintendo Entertainment System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
*Star
*Star is a complex abstract strategy game by Ea Ea, a designer of Y. It is a redevelopment of his earlier game Star A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked .... Notation Each cell on the game board is labeled with a three-character value ''Nxy'' according to a polar coordinate system: * ''N'' refers to the primary radial arm. There are five arms, labeled as *, S, T, A, or R, proceeding clockwise from the point of the lower right arm of the five-pointed star in the middle of the board * ''x'' refers to the ring number of the cell. The concentric rings are labeled from 1 to 10, using the rightmost digit only, with Ring 1 (''x''=1) in the center of the board and Ring 10 (''x''=0) on the perimeter of the board. * ''y'' refers to the tangential position of the cell, counted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (board Game)
Star is a two-player abstract strategy board game developed by Craige Schensted (now Ea Ea). It was first published in the September 1983 issue of ''Games'' magazine. It is a connection game similar to ''Hex'', ''Y'', ''Havannah'', and ''TwixT''. Unlike these games, however, the result is based on a player having a higher final score rather than achieving a specific goal. He has since developed a slightly more complicated version called '' *Star'' with better balance between edge and center moves, writing "''*Star'' is what those other games wanted to be." Game rules ''Star'' is played on a board of hexagonal cells. Although the board can have any size and shape, a board with unequal edges is generally used to avoid ties. Players may not place stones on the partial hexagon border cells off the edge of the board; these are used for scoring. One player places black stones on the board; the other player places white stones. The game begins with one player placing a stone on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star (2017 Film)
''The Star'' is a 2017 American computer-animated biblical comedy film directed by Timothy Reckart. Inspired by the Nativity of Jesus, the film's screenplay was written by Carlos Kotkin and Simon Moore, based on an original concept by Tom Sheridan. It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation, with partnership from Walden Media, Affirm Films and The Jim Henson Company. It stars the voices of Steven Yeun, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Keegan-Michael Key, Kelly Clarkson, Patricia Heaton, Kristin Chenoweth, Tracy Morgan, Tyler Perry, and Oprah Winfrey. The film was released by Columbia Pictures through its parental label Sony Pictures Entertainment on November 17, 2017, in the United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $62 million worldwide. It received a nomination for Best Original Song ("The Star" by Mariah Carey) at the 75th Golden Globe Awards but lost to " This Is Me". Plot In "9 months B.C.", Mary is visited by an angel telling her she will bear th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star (2015 Film)
''Star'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Émilie Mannering and released in 2015. The film stars Kevin Geronimo Tejeda and Justin Joselin Geronimo Morris as Tito and Jay, two young Black Canadian brothers living in the Montreal neighbourhood of Parc-Extension. The film was a shortlisted Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards, the film was shortlisted for Best Live Action Short Drama. Global News
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Star (2014 Film)
''Star'' (russian: Звезда, Zvezda) is a 2014 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Anna Melikian. Plot Young Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance. Cast * Tinatin Dalakishvili as Masha * Severija Janušauskaitė as Rita * Pavel Tabakov as Kostya * Andrey Smolyakov as Sergey Vladimirovich * Juozas Budraitis as old man Awards * Kinotavr: ** Best Director (Anna Melikian) ** Best Actress (Severija Janušauskaitė) * V Odesa International Film Festival: ** Special Jury Prize (Tinatin Dalakishvili) * Golden Eagle Award: ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
