Hours later, the crowds still milled about the fallen idol, spitting and mocking.
'They said Hell, that's him.' Philadelphia, however, has yet to get its hands on its fallen idol.
The Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, for instance, normally plays host to a show celebrating that fallen idol Michael Jackson.
The biggest events of the evening, however, involved the relationship between Steve and his possibly fallen idol, Superintendent Hastings.
There has been little evidence to date that Maradona, the nation's fallen idol, knows how to convert performance into sage team management.
It is surely not implausible that the quarter's reputed magic of release and renewal -- of renaissance -- can be expected to redound to its latest fallen idol.
Not every former housemate, not-quite-big-enough Loser or fallen Idol gets a magazine deal or a record contract; few reality TV stars become Guy Sebastian.
In a way, all these conversations were variations on a theme: How do you sift through the good and bad of a fallen idol?
In "Criss Cross" (1949), also directed by Robert Siodmak, his bank guard gone bad greets death almost passively, the noir antihero as fallen idol.
Lawyers for Martha Stewart, the fallen idol of middle America, were yesterday preparing to hand over phone, email and trading records to investigators examining claims of insider dealing.
Ben, who appears to have better connections with the local German authorities than Johan, isn't exactly what he seems, and "Winter in Wartime" is partly a story of a fallen idol.
