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Witness the number of big names turning in shrewd, non-hammy, anti-Robin Williams performances in animated films; witness Bruce Willis reviving his career by ceasing to be Bruce Willis; witness the reigning stardom of Gwyneth Paltrow, who is not the Audrey Hepburn supernova she's cracked up to be, but, to her credit, a chameleon character actress who happens to lovely.
It is a sobering thought, then, to consider that virtually all of the elements above #2 (helium, the fusion product of the hydrogen that makes up the stars, our sun included) are the result of the catastrophic blowing apart of prior suns, and that our earth and everything else in our own solar system are mere cosmic hand-me-downs from someone else's supernova.