Not that portraying Jesus as a movie idol is anything new.

"You're doing a great job," says a young man in painter's pants, smiling like someone who has just met his movie idol.

And, being the antithesis of the tall and handsome movie idol, he has audiences laughing both at and with him.

Some of this is young, spunky hair, fashioned after a new generation of rock stars and movie idols.

Until recently, the chief ministers of two populous Indian states had been former movie idols.

This was a time when people were listening to the radio for the latest news and yearning for the lavish lifestyles of their favorite movie idols.

In the 1950s, a star-struck, plain and dumpy London schoolgirl imagines she could become a glamorous movie idol.

She was the one who knew enough to be discomforted by the sight of the movie idol dressed to die.

Los Angeles has been doing it for decades, trundling tourists past movie idols' mansions by the busload.