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''But that was thirty years ago, when they used to have a show
''Now it's a [[Deader Than Disco|disco]], but not for Lola
''Still in the dress she used to wear, faded feathers in her hair"''
|'''[[Barry Manilow]]''', "Copacabana (At the Copa)"}}
She was [[Glory Days|once one of the biggest stars in pop music, film, or theatre]]. But now, her time in the spotlight is over. She's over the hill. A joke. A "Where Are They Now?" trivia question. A '''White Dwarf Starlet'''.
But she still maintains dreams of greatness, or that she'll be rediscovered and back in the spotlight. Often totally delusional, quoting random lines and talking about fellow stars that passed her by. She probably lives in a run-down mansion [[Shrine to Self|full of memorabilia of her lost golden years]], wears moth eaten [[Outdated Outfit]]s from her great hits, and still expects everyone to recognize her.
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* {{spoiler|Shiho's mother Sayuri Nagasawa}}, in ''[[Private Actress]]''. {{spoiler|While she ''was'' genuinely talented, being scarred ruined her career. }} At the same time, {{spoiler|Sayuri}}'s old rival Ruriko Daichi deeply fears to become this.
** Beautifully lampshaded by Shiho:
{{quote|'''Shiho''': All actresses have their era to shine. Afterwards, they fade away. Like [[Greta Garbo]], retiring in a
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Live
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" was about a White Dwarf Starlet, Barbara Jean Trenton, who becomes so obsessed with her old movies she literally gets pulled into one.
* Faith from ''Hope And Faith''.
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* Seedra from [[1000 Ways to Die]]'s episode "Inject-icide". She's an elderly former beauty queen who injected her face with corn oil as a cheap substitute for Botox (as she couldn't afford the actual treatments). Some of that got into her bloodstream, and then it started leaking out of her face...
* Raquel in ''[[The L.A. Complex]]'' had some fame 10 years or so ago, but now she's pushing 30 and still auditioning to [[Dawson Casting|play teenagers]]. She makes a point of not wanting the "mom roles".
== [[Music]] ==
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* [[Meaningful Name|Gloria Swansong]] from [[Sierra]]'s ''[[Laura Bow|The Colonel's Bequest]]''.
* Naoko Mihama from the first ''[[Siren (video game)|Siren]]'' game is a former model and actress reduced to B-list status. She ends up going crazy due to the horrifying situation she finds herself in, and, combined with her vanity, she {{spoiler|willingly allows herself to become a shibito in a misguided attempt to stay eternally young and beautiful. Following her transformation, she is first seen as a regular shibito, before eventually mutating into a dog shibito.}}
* Jack Hammer in the third case of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]''. It turns out that {{spoiler|He accidentally killed his co-star and Dee Vasquez covered it up, forcing him to take on villains' roles for low pay}}.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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*** It also helps that the actor has the last copies of the old show {{spoiler|allowing the show to go to video, giving him some income from the royalties}}.
*** It should be added that, in a bit of a [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], the character he voiced in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' is not hoarding the memorabilia from his one starring role because he ''misses'' anything about it, except perhaps the paycheck it'd brought; he's rather bitter about having gotten typecast as the Grey Ghost to the point of nobody wanting to give him a role as, well, anything else.
* A Norma Desmond-like character was featured on the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' episode "The Uncrashable Hindentitanic."
** And, at least going by a critic's reaction to her old films being shown, she apparently wasn't a very good actress in her heyday.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' features Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, Bikini Bottom analogues of Batman and Robin (and actual superheroes within the Spongebob universe, albeit far past their prime) who (via the intervention of Spongebob) frequently end up attempting to relive their past days of glory.
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