But generally their tone is one of general acceptance rather than rapt adoration.
America's adoration of its generals shows up in the numbers: 10 US presidents have served as generals.
America's adoration of its generals dates back to its founding years, when military leaders defended the country from the perceived twin threat of European invaders and Native American tribes.
When Hollywood, and American Jews in general, imagine Israelis, the image often ranges from adoration to lampoon, from a race of intimidating, if wounded and well-meaning, assassins, to a hybrid of Yiddish/Pale of Settlement mercantile cliches.
Pendleton, who fancied training to be a vet in her early teenage years, has a general love of animals and is so bursting with adoration for horses that she is inclined to overshare.
That is, I suppose, a reflection of my general distaste for the whole cult of celebrity - not just the adoration of people with no merits except the ability to be photographed for newspapers but, equally, the assumption that a person of distinction is in every particular worth both admiration and imitation.
Trudeau provoked indignation and adoration in equal measure when his character Mark Slackmayer, a radical DJ, declared Nixon's former attorney general, John Mitchell, "guilty, guilty, guilty!" even before he had been charged.
Since returning from space last year, he has faced an old-school astronaut problem, one that general boredom with the space programme had all but erased: not just celebrity, but a sort of stunned adoration.
But, in his adoration, he insisted that the Hearst press overpublicize her and overpraise her constantly, and the public in general got wise.
