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  Any Simpson fan will probably remember the episode where Selma married Troy McClure. In the early goings of that episode Chief Wiggum pulled the cheesy actor over and got knocked in the head when Troy opened the gull-wing door of his DeLorean. Wiggum's instant reaction was "Ow, I'm seeing stars here!" Chief Wiggum was never the greenest clover in the meadow, so he got confused easily by bright lights and shiny objects. Troy's response was confident and forceful. He said, "No, just one! Hi, I'm Troy McClure; you may remember me from such films as "The Greatest Story Ever Hulaed", and "They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall".



  Mercifully the movies mentioned above are fictional. Society would probably come to a grinding halt if they were ever made into feature films. The truth is though that many of us had a similar experience to the one Chief Wiggum went through as we looked at the tables today. We were seeing stars, and not just one of them.



  We are now to the point in the Main Event where everyone eliminated gets a paycheck for their efforts. Tobey Maguire of Spiderman fame and Sully Erna of the band Godsmack are surprisingly still in the hunt for poker's most prestigious trophy.



  These two players have been sucking the attention of fans and media cameras to them like they had black holes hidden somewhere in their briefs. It isn't just that these two are "Hollywood Celebrities" but that they are the first people from the entertainment world to make it to the money finish realm of the World Series of Poker Main Event.



  At this point in time Sully is in the middle of the pack, and Tobey is in the lower half of chip count. Regardless of whether or not these guys make it through the night, they both have broken a barrier that most people expected Jennifer Tilly, Ben Affleck, or a star more associated with the sport to pass through.



  With this high profile drama going on, it has deflected attention from other happenings in and around the tournament. It allowed Chris "Jesus" Ferguson to gracefully accept his elimination without it becoming a circus, and the last of the Hachem brothers went quietly into that good night without fanfare. They were probably grateful that attention was elsewhere when the ax fell upon their necks. It is not often players of that caliber can walk away unnoticed.