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To: star56 who wrote (33246)	11/25/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 108040

Great interview with BGST CEO on RADIOWALLSTREET.COM...gross margins are >30% with 1.3M EMAIL list growing at 5% a week...more than 3400 titles for sale....BigStar Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: BGST) online marketing company specializing in filmed entertainment. Bigstar.com (http://www.bigstar.com) is the company's entertainment superstore for movie lovers and features more than 70,000 filmed entertainment products including feature films, educational, instructional, TV series, and fitness shows on all formats including videos, DVDs and laserdisc. BigStar integrates over a dozen filmed entertainment information databases to create one of the most engaging sites on the web. The site features reviews, celebrity chats, star biographies, and daily movie news. In addition, bigstar.com customers can purchase videos and DVDs at discount prices or take advantage of special promotions daily on the site. Knowing that serious filmed entertainment customers have specific information needs, bigstar.com has developed two specialty areas. For the hard-core DVD enthusiasts, BigStar offers a DVD area with a complete catalog of all DVD products and hard-to-find technical information including specifics on sound re-mastering, digitizing technology, and picture quality. For children's video buyers, the kid's video section is an informative and comprehensive online children's specialty store. This section features age-specific search capabilities and authoritative endorsements offering parents the information they need to make informed purchase decisions. Eveline Carsman, Ph.D., world-renowned child advocate and author of Children's Video Review Newsletter provides bigstar.com with age appropriate rating and the “Ask Dr. Carsman” column. BigStar has also incorporated endorsements from the Coalition for Quality Children's Media. BigStar is a direct marketing company that has developed proprietary direct e-mail marketing technology. This technology allows BigStar to customize promotions and communications to its customers based on demographics, prior purchase history and browsing behavior. BigStar's business partners include Yahoo!Chat, America Online, Moviefone.com, FortuneCity.com, Earthlink, Black Star, The New York Times on the Web and Gay.com. Astrophile.com is a content-only entertainment web site powered by BigStar. The web site features more than 4,400 biographies, 240 interviews, 2,000 movie stills and 150 transcripts of chats with popular actors and actresses and is updated weekly. Astrophile.com is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date information sources of Hollywood celebrities on the Internet. Astrophile.com was recently selected by Entertainment Weekly as a “really useful movie site.” Bigstar.com was founded by David Friedensohn, CEO and Chairman of the Board, and David Levitsky, Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director. David Friedensohn is the former CEO of SonicNet and was the director of corporate development at Viacom. David Levitsky was most recently the marketing director at Columbia House where he was responsible for selling more than 1.5 billion in videos and launching ColumbiaHouse.com throughout his career. BigStar was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in the historic South Street Seaport section of New York City.