How to manually place Fivestar in tpl

I know this was covered in an earlier issue, but I can't seem to get it to work. I want to place the Fivestar widget in different places in a couple on tpl's, and I tried the approach in another issue.

<?php
  print render($content['field_stars']); 
?>
..
..
..
  <?php
    hide($content['field_stars']);
    hide($content['comments']);
    hide($content['links']);
    print render($content);
  ?>

I was trying to add it in near the title in the above example. This isn't working at all. Is $content['field_stars'] the wrong way to call it?