A Star Was Born, and I Can’t Stop Thinking About It
‘A Star is Born’ continues to affect me. This is my attempt to give words to why.

Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine, the fading star from A Star is Born, is hunkered, slurry, and hard to know. He’s a drunk — his speech is floundering, round-about bullshit that rarely, if ever, brightens with the truthful and artistic clarity…