It had been engineered that Aladdin's golden lamp was placed under my seat so that I would go up on the stage at the end of the show and meet the stars, including Larry Grayson, and be presented with a prize.

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Runners up, as nominated by readers, go to a handful of oldies: "The Stars Fell on Henrietta, " "Tulsa, " and "Boom Town, " the latter featuring Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.

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We call these stars supergiants and they are 20 times more massive than our own sun and so when these stars go supernova they expand to a radius of up to a billion miles, becoming the biggest and brightest star in the universe.

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