Fosselius' biggest hit was his 1978 parody Hardware Wars, a 12 minute parody of Hollywood coming attractions that took on the cultural juggernaut that was Star Wars.

More than a show, American Idol is a cultural juggernaut and, in an age of fragmented audiences and niche offerings, an ongoing testament to the power of big, high concept entertainment.

So The Cherrys are a colour-crazed collision between dozens of cultural juggernauts on the freeway of pop.

More than commercial considerations animate European concern with America's cultural juggernaut, armed with the English language, whose ubiquitous expressions are MTV, Walt Disney and "Terminator 2."

Children are squarely in the path of this cultural juggernaut, The New York Times found in a yearlong examination of the crisis.

He was 81 but was remembered less as the Cleveland visionary who dreamed up the greatest superhero of all time than as the naive young man who sold the rights to a billion-dollar cultural and commercial juggernaut for $130.

Would "American Idol" still be a cultural juggernaut if contestants were asked to perform "mysterious but recognizable amalgams of melody, words, harmony, all moving together in time"?

This might come as a surprise if you've read the almost unalloyed praise that has been heaped upon this ambitious three-part opus, which has become a sort of cultural juggernaut and the season's indispensable ticket for those who consider themselves serious theatergoers.

In it, there are spectacular works from the most famous art troves in the world: the Louvre, the Prado, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art - three dozen cultural juggernauts from Taipei to the Vatican.

Defying a cultural juggernaut can be a lonesome endeavor, but Italian-American groups that dislike the "The Sopranos" for its Mafioso depictions are undeterred, even as the series begins its fifth season tonight.