For Rihanna, the record-setting artist and current idol of fashion, they are old news.
Ironically, exactly those latter qualities were of course exercised against Iran and their current idol, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with warm applause from Britain and the US.
He made his debut in the third division at 17 and spent four seasons at Oviedo; the club's current idol, the striker Diego Cervero, is among his best friends.
Jeff Archuleta, above left, the father of David — who at 17 is the youngest current "Idol" contestant — has been the subject of reports in recent months about his active role in his son's performances and song choices.
The dated themes and stale format have been complaints of current "Idol" critics this season as the show has fallen to new ratings lows and is often bested by "The Big Bang Theory" and "Modern Family".
Outside the Oneohtrix Point Never show at Brooklyn's the Warsaw — a Polish community center that doubles as a music venue and serves pierogies between sets — one could overhear fanboys spreading rumors about their current idol, Daniel Lopatin, the creative mind behind the experimental electronic music project they had come to see.
It will take many years for Islam to defeat its current false idols of bigotry and hatred, but this, in the end, will take place".
For a younger set, the current teen idols New Kids on the Block, a savvy combination of pop sweetness with the funk rhythms and dance moves of the black pop style called new jack swing, will be heard (with a little help from backing tapes) amid the screams of pre-teen-age girls tonight at Giants Stadium.
Tellingly, Kaczynski's current political idol is the hard-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
New York has seen cupcake and fried-chicken fads, but the city's current food idol is the ramp, a limp and unassuming wild onion harvested in early spring.
