But after months of disruption, neither the moguls nor the stars can have much appetite for another strike.
This year, stars can still pick up plenty of free stuff like gold painted KitchenAid mixers (not kidding).
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Stars can get 30 invites a day, so offering inducements is a key way to attract them to an event.
So great is the appetite for brand names in the Olympics that retired stars can generate massive publicity with attempted comebacks.
When night fell, we discovered how close and bright stars can be.
Five stars can earn you a free drink or upgrade, but the thirty star Gold Level is a very real example of in-store attention.
While football stars can now command multi-million pound annual salaries and sponsorship deals, past stars have had to sell off memorabilia to make ends meet.
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The stars can also be asked to put their salary in escrow, making them personally accountable for any losses if their actions were to cause production delays.
While Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor are legends of the past, some current Bollywood stars can still trace their origins to Peshawar, nearly 66 years after partition.
Now Shadley is in Tinseltown for a different kind of industry-related project: designing the Architectural Digest green room -- the backstage area where stars can relax while the show runs -- at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
If standouts like Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Twitter are going to go public for tens of billions of dollars, the argument goes, surely lesser tech stars can command a premium in their financings as well.
The first is the "I've gotta have it" impulse, which, though generally the preserve of spoiled heiresses, It girls and pop stars, can strike us all.
And unless you have one of the few movie stars who can open everything ( Will Smith and Denzel Washinton), you need a concept that piques interest.
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Even for top track and field stars, it can be harsh going financially.
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With a new state of the art ball park and a growing roster of all stars, Miami can finally have a ball club that the city is actually proud to call their own.
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Immediately following the West Coast broadcast of each episode of The Amazing Race: All-Stars, fans can log on to innertube, CBS's broadband channel, to watch Elimination Station, a program which follows the life of losers sent to a secluded sequester house to live with fellow eliminated contestants...
Mr. WEST: (Singing) Well, ...(unintelligible) rock stars, but they can't cut five without being cut, carved.
He feels pop stars of his generation can be more effective through asserting their influence on politicians who are now in the same age bracket.
For the most part the better players in Asia have proved that they can be stars in the U.S. Suzuki has been an All-Star each of his six seasons with Seattle.
Spend the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with an astronomer who can explain the stars.
It opens up a whole new debate on how much sponsors can control their stars.
Indiana has become its own worst enemy, producing more stars than its flagship school can retain.
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You can buy a stars-and-stripes-decorated statuette of the Liberty Bell with an eagle perched on it.
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And as I have shared with our supporters many times: When it is darkest you can see the stars.
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Awards are nice and it certainly helps to market a movie if you can say it stars Oscar winner so-and-so.
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One new title, "PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, " can be played on the home console and the Vita at the same time.
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