For Ferran Adria, playing with food became a stellar career.
Keating became a stellar performer, making his mark with a blend of earthy attacks on his opponents and high-level explanations and lectures on the more arcane aspects of economics.
Thus, the story of the severely dyslexic David Boies, who becomes a stellar legal advocate because of his extraordinary ability to hear nuance in a witness's evidence (a habit learned in childhood when he strained desperately to understand what was going on in class).
It's not like: 'Mick's on the phone again'; 'Oh, God, tell him I'm in the bath'.' The one exception to this was Marc Bolan who Peel got to know before the singer became a stellar presence in London's pop firmament in the late sixties and early seventies.
Meanwhile, the core becomes a stellar remnant: a white dwarf, a neutron star, or (if it is sufficiently massive) a black hole.
After a brief stint at the Collège Rollin, he set out to become a painter, which he did, a stellar one and self-taught.
Almost by accident, what began as a stellar birthday card has become a remarkably concise biography, with astute reflections on a career that started with a world scoop (the ascent of Everest) and went on to encompass newspaper reporting, broadcasting, a three-volume history of the British Empire, celebrated travel writing and a memoir of her sex change.
Stars and stellar brands have become a major presence in the philanthropic world, and demand for access to them or something extraordinary seems to be growing.
Even for these more massive stars, however, if the residual mass in the core is less than 1.4 solar masses (the Chandrasekhar limit), the stellar remnant will become a white dwarf.
Vocally the duet has become a collector's item – two such differently stellar singers in one Motown classic.
