1.   He became a cult hero among surfers.

2.   The actor James Dean acquired the status of a cult hero.

3.   And the current cult hero is not a Bears lineman but Binti-Jua, the motherly gorilla who saved a youngster at the Brookfield Zoo.

4.   And thus a cult hero was born.

5.   Another cult hero, Anna Sui, sent out a surprising spring collection.

6.   ----- He has become a Boston sports cult hero, surpassing Drew Bledsoe and any active Celtic or Bruin of your choice.

7.   But it is mostly a road show in which the two directors, both cult heroes, do their version of a song-and-dance routine.

8.   But to force a suspension would mean Iverson becomes the same kind of cult hero that Rocker did, just with a different race of fans.

9.   By then, Prefontaine was already something of a countercultural cult hero.

10.   Climbers have their days in the sun, their books and magazines, their cult heroes, their meccas.