drag club that Maine just happened to stumble drunkenly into. (Maine is played by Cooper, as part of his impressive bid to leap several tiers of Hollywood prestige in a single bound.) One minute, Ally is belting out a sultry “La Vie en Rose” at an L.A. She is, of course, the Star, a frazzled waitress and unsung singer-songwriter named Ally, plucked from obscurity by a pickled country-rock deity named Jackson Maine. Halfway through Bradley Cooper’s pompous, silly, and insidiously electrifying remake of A Star Is Born, I started imagining the speech I assumed Lady Gaga’s character would eventually give.
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