But Blodget's star crashed almost as quickly as the dotcom bubble burst.
"I did not aspire to be a media celebrity in any way, shape or form," Ms. Meeker told The Guardian this month as her media star crashed with a thud worthy of William Ginsburg's.
Describing a simulation in which one star crashes into another about twice its size at a speed of about half a million miles per hour, "the small one actually plows through the larger one and tears a furrow," said Dr. Joshua E. Barnes, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
Well, as the entire world is observing a phenomenally cool meteor shower, a "brown dwarf" (you'll hear that one a lot, so go ahead and have a swig), or failed star, crashes into the Moon, causing bits of it to hit Earth and igniting anomalies that become weirder and more frequent, until the Moon's orbit goes haywire.
The most celebrated among them, Boy George (played by Euan Morton), became an international pop star, crashed to earth in the grip of heroin and came back to compose the music for this candid assessment of how the promise of glamorous escape through androgyny and fashion overkill failed to fulfill the dreams of Taboo's acolytes.
Matthew Rich lip-synced like a rock star, crashing to the floor over and over like a track on repeat.
Ford produces as many car and minivan models with the federal government's five-star crash rating as all other automakers combined.
Five-star crash pads charge several hundred dollars a night for a bed — and double or even triple that for suites — while most remaining accommodations are generic business hotels or charmless dives.
(In Europe, Smart cars carry a three-star, out of a possible five-star crash rating, but a European insurance study notes that the cost of repairing the all-plastic body is roughly half that for fixing other small cars).
