{"id":35504,"date":"2013-05-17T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2014-07-12T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:11:23","slug":"sing-a-song-of-movie-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=35504","title":{"rendered":"Sing a Song of Movie Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Used to be you could call yourself a movie star when you saw your name “in lights.\u201d Of course, these days you don\u2019t much see actors\u2019 names on the marquee…even when there is<\/i> a marquee. Maybe it was fair to say you\u2019d truly made it when you got your name \u201cabove the title\u201d\u2014but is that really a fair assessment today\u2026or do you have to get your own \u201ccharacter\u201d poster to know you\u2019ve hit the big time?<\/p>\n

Then again, when this<\/em> is where the \u201ccharacter poster\u201d has gone\u2026can it still be said there\u2019s anything that special about this particular honor?<\/p>\n

\"hangover-poster-giraffe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

No, it’s time for a new criterion to be established to separate the greats from the wannabes. Let\u2019s make it impossible from here on out to call yourself any kind of a big deal until there\u2019s a song<\/em> written about you.<\/p>\n

By no means is this an exhaustive list\u2014there are only five we\u2019re going to cue up on the MovieFanFare jukebox today\u2014so you may feel free to add the great songs-about-stars not represented here down\u00a0in the comments. Now pump up the volume (or put on your headphones) and enjoy:<\/p>\n

\u201cLon Chaney\u2019s Gonna Get You If You Don\u2019t Watch Out,\u201d from The Hollywood Revue of 1929<\/a><\/p>\n