1.   And linebacker Sam Huff was the first defensive superstar of the TV era.

2.   Leontyne Price became the first African-American operatic superstar, followed by Shirley Verrett, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle and a host of others.

3.   Thirty-three million people who would be extra appreciative of the first superstar basketball player who did not spurn them.

4.   Widely held to be the greatest singer in American pop history, Sinatra was also the first modern pop superstar.

5.   Frank Sinatra was the first modern pop superstar in any sense of the term.

6.   The first superstar was Mary Pickford.

7.   Thus her longheld title as the Philippines first real superstar.