A Star Is Born

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Star Is Born, 1976.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Star Is Born, 1976.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Star Is Born, 1976.

New friend Esther (Barbra Streisand) is left at the stadium as rocker John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is choppered-out after injuring himself in concert, back home Gary Busey as his road manager, Paul Mazursky his agent, and LA radio star M.G. Kelly as the D-J, in A Star Is Born, 1976.

The meeting of the principals, train-wreck rock star John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) stumbles into an LA club where Esther Hoffman (Barbra Streisand) is performing, with Venetta Fields and Clydie King, an original song by Rupert Holmes, early in the 1976 re-make A Star Is Born.

Having refused to let him spend the night after getting him out of a brawl, small-time singer Esther (Barbra Streisand) welcomes rocker John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson), whom she did invite for breakfast, and who crashed outside in his limo (Paul Mazursky his driver), in A Star Is Born, 1976.