And at midnight, they were still talking in awed tones about the onetime stars.
As for the abandoned extractor, TRW's onetime star, the new team said dismissively that its "application to discrimination may be limited."
But Jones, a onetime star of a Nike advertising campaign that turned her into a household name, no longer has a sponsor.
But it should certainly return some of the luster to this onetime star.
Here a television producer making a documentary about famous blondes sends a detective to find a onetime star named Gloire.
"Dalhart's chance of going to the Kentucky Derby," the owner said after watching the fall of his onetime star, "went out the window."
Joseph Watts, a onetime star in the Gambino crime family, was convicted yesterday of conspiring to lie to federal tax agents about his income.
Klinsmann, a onetime star forward and captain of the German team, is raising the stakes himself.
He and Bernard King, a onetime star with the Knicks, are the first brothers inducted as players.
Seeing the onetime romantic star as a character actor gives the film some curiosity value.