11.   Cresci booked the big stars -- Freni, Giocomini, Zeffirelli to design -- and rumours rumbled about under-the-table deals and suspect contracts.

12.   Among them, there are no female stars who can match the box-office clout of big male stars.

13.   An artist who becomes a big star has to be an original.

14.   And how big a star was Point Given this year?

15.   And having been married to a big star like Bogart, I must be rich.

16.   And not just big stars are getting work.

17.   Another big star, Bette Midler, has seen her new CBS comedy slide steadily backward after good initial ratings.

18.   Another very big star here is the city of Los Angeles, exquisitely rendered as a place of hard, beautiful surfaces, icy perils and velvet nights.

19.   Ashley Power is becoming a big star.

20.   Besides, the big stars still are getting the big dough.