When was the last time you saw a major studio release about a living movie star? In the last year, folk, rock and pop fans might have seen A Complete Unknown , with Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan, or Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere , about the making of The Boss’s “difficult” 1982 album Nebraska . Or maybe you went deeper and saw Better Man , in which British singer Robbie Williams is played by an animated chimpanzee. It seems that movie stars, however, must wait — even Judy Garland, whose first and only big-screen biopic, Judy , arrived in 2019, 50 years after her death.

In the absence of a real flesh-and-blood A-lister, we have Jay Kelly , played by George Clooney in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix drama of the same name. Clooney himself has acknowledged that it w

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