And in Letters to George Washington, Paine even had the guts to criticize Washington (who even then was an "American idol"), utilizing language such as "treacherous in friendship... and a hypocrite in public life".
Whom do the idols idolize?
Born into an upper-caste Hindu family in 1948, she was 16 when she appeared in her first Tamil-language film alongside matinee idol Ramachandran, 31 years her senior.
The ad, in print and online versions, talks about the ability of Univision's prime-time novelas to deliver to advertisers more bilingual Hispanic viewers, ages 18 to 49, than hit shows on English-language TV networks like "American Idol," "Dancing With the Stars," "Modern Family" and "The Voice".
Even though the birth of rock'n'roll brought with it pelvises and gyrations, the language of the earliest pop idols was still suggestive rather than overt; think of Elvis, all shook up, or the Beatles, the very thought of holding hands leaving them with "such a feeling/That my love I can't hide".
Extremist Sunni preachers based in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait abuse Shia as "idol-worshippers" – the intolerant language of Wahhabi exclusivity.
The siblings also shun Spanish-language television for shows like "American Idol," and neighborhood clothing stores with names like El Mundo for Macy's.
He adorned his with a painting of the Bollywood screen idol Kareena Kapoor and the words "Ne Bluf Mi," a phrase in Sranan Tongo, the Creole language that is Suriname's lingua franca, that translates as "Don't Challenge Me".
Beneath the rickety stage that bears the 53-year-old film-star, idol of Andhra Pradesh's Telugu-language film industry, or "Tollywood", the crowd boils and threatens to burst.
The Anakara were responsible for safeguarding the sacred Antemoro idols and texts, spoke a secret language for communicating arcane knowledge amongst themselves, and rarely intermarried with other Antemoro clans.
