There is also more to the piste map than meets the eye: hidden off various runs are shrines to several rock idols and celebrities.

The 5-foot-9-inch, 176-pound Howard is no rock idol, no storyteller.

"It's not like anything really crazy," he said of the encounter with his lifelong rock idols.

Seetha falls directly on the rock idol of Mareesan and he gets his human form.

But wasn't a similar comparison of yesterday's art stars to today's rock idols applied with far more wit and ingenuity in "Impromptu"?

Even nonperformers who received honorary degrees have invoked rock musical idols.

Each had a mutual interest in playing with Copeland who had been a rock idol of their teen years.

He thought Bekker was like some rock idol, or something.

"But I read somewhere that Jesus was like a rock idol."

Aya Ishiguro was a runner-up in a 1997 contest to find a new female rock idol.