The game for the time was a cult classic and catapulted him to star status.
Others congratulated me, as if it placed me into rock-star status, which made me chuckle.
One reason may be Mr Kamps's star status, which was once a big help.
Mr. JOHN DICKERSON (Washington Political Correspondent, Slate Magazine): Al Gore has a kind of a rock star status today.
Jolie, known as well for her global humanitarian efforts as for her movie star status, is a good example.
Still more proof of Winfrey's power: The web of spin-offs with whom she's provided a platform and subsequent star status.
But even her star status and legendary energy hasn't prevented HP's share price from dropping more than 37% since April 2000.
Although Clinton is not that much younger than Biden, her appeal resonates with younger voters, elevating her to rock star status.
They all earned approval from Mobil Travel Guide in 1967, and continue to hold Forbes Travel Guide Recommended or Four-Star status today.
But you have achieved a certain rock star status outside of that.
The main draw for such luminaries, apart from the rock-star status accorded them by the local press, is Singapore's permissive climate for research.
It could reopen at its original seaside location in Roses, where Adria presided over an impressive Michelin three-star status for more than a decade.
Many of those we give that unwitting permission to are in the arts, where gaining rock star status depends on a degree of freakiness.
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My belief is that the brand will retain its star status if and only if the ride is worth cheering about and the value is there.
The row began after there were no bids for 11 Pakistani players - despite their star status - at IPL auctions for foreign players in Mumbai (Bombay) on Tuesday.
Honey Langcaster-James, a psychologist who specialises in celebrity behaviour, said so few people achieved star status that it made it difficult to scientifically study the effect on people's lives.
In the music industry, a stadium concert is the ultimate rock-star status symbol: Few acts can sell enough tickets to fill one, let alone a multitude of such venues year after year.
Letts awarded the show four stars, deciding that it "falls just short of five-star status because it is too knowing from the start - a little too full-phwoarr for the hen-night crowds".
I'm regularly amazed, for instance, at the overly-deferential welcome reserved for visiting writers, scholars and polemicists, some of whom are granted a star status here that they could never hope to achieve at home.
But as knowledge of how to control the risks of flying accumulated as checklists and flight simulators became more prevalent and sophisticated the danger diminished, values of safety and conscientiousness prevailed, and the rock-star status of the test pilots was gone.
In this case, his arrogance appears to have caused him and his handlers to believe that, by taking the unprecedented step of having an American president show up in person to lobby the International Olympic Committee (IOC), his rock-star status would assure Chicago's selection.
His Subcommittee on Capital Markets will hear testimony from investors, brokerages and even members of the media, who are partly responsible for the "rock-star" status some analysts have achieved.
But given the Obama administration's difficulty in filling the role and the long line of candidates who preceded him, Schmidt may not have been chosen for his "rock star" status.
Of all the actors who gained superstar status after Star Wars, Harrison Ford is definitely the most successful.
This gave underwriters a status like that of star fund-managers in America.
In one of his first games for the club, Eusebio scored a hat-trick against Santos, a side that included Brazilian star Pele, and confirmed his status as one of Europe's most lethal strikers.
In addition, Schmidt makes use of his own personal status as a Silicon Valley rock star to gain the confidence of overawed lawmakers.
Bartlett also gives a lot of credit to basketball star Magic Johnson for revealing his HIV-positive status in 1991, destigmatizing it broadly.
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