With almost no stars now recording in Kinshasa, Congo's music is becoming devoid of innovation.
In the overall rankings, ten of the 150 councils are performing very badly, achieving one or no stars.
Getting one or no stars could also have implications for recruitment, she said.
There are no stars aside from cameos by Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey.
The third new movie opening this weekend has no stars, a low budget and is likely to make its money back.
The most highly anticipated movie of the year is Avatar, James Cameron's new live action 3-D film, which has no stars at all.
When you look at the performance of Avatar, which had amazing 3-D effects and no stars, it seems like movie-going today is about how the film looks, not who's in it.
"If there are no stars, there's no show, " says Bill Carroll, vice president and director of programming at media buying and consulting firm Katz Television Group, speaking of a glamourfest he believes would be delayed before airing as a Globes-like press conference.
Yet no new stars have emerged in the last decade to sweep the old guard away.
At the same time, bargain-basement comedies with no name stars pulled in big bucks.
Though there are no big stars and the film has an inauspicious February release date, it was produced by Michael Bay and directed by D.
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There are no big stars (who would potentially jack up the price tag) but the sci-fi flick from producer Michael Bay has plenty of action scenes and special effects.
The time slot was terrible (Friday nights), it had no major stars attached to it and the premise -- Grimm fairy tales set in modern times around the banner of a police procedural -- sounds like it could be the cheesiest thing ever.
Arguably their two most popular players, Garnett and Pierce, are no longer the stars they were back in their prime.
So it's no surprise that music stars have sought other streams of income outside royalties, concert dates and merchandising sales throughout the years.
No matter how many stars align for a business environment to thrive, long-term value creation will not occur within this type of culture.
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The families of America's biggest music stars are no different.
Ness Wadia - a co-owner of the same team - said that the availability or otherwise of players was "a major issue" and because of that there were no bids for some stars.
There is also no place for the stars of Asec Mimosas' thrilling 2006 African Champions League campaign, Didier Ya Konan and Bakary Soro, even though both moved to European clubs in the transfer window.
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It cost a little more than half what "After Earth" took to make and has an ensemble cast with no A-list stars, meaning few people in Hollywood expected the thriller to be the weekend's biggest new film.
Dr Murray stressed there was no direct evidence these stars did have Earth-sized planets in orbit about them, but modelling had shown that if sufficient terrestrial material existed in a system it would eventually clump together into bodies as big as the Earth.
Plus the show is no longer chruning out major stars.
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There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.
The identities of the stars are secret to no one, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
In Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Syria, no-one is burning the stars and stripes.
No matter that footballers, rock stars and movie moguls may earn on similar scales, that does not occasion the same anger among the public.
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