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There are rules to playing the everyman celebrity. Violate them at your own risk.

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By Ty Burr | Globe Staff
June 7, 2009

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CAN YOU BLAME Susan Boyle for entering a private London clinic last week claiming exhaustion? Holding up a mirror to our impossibly conflicted dreams of stardom would wear anyone out. (Full article: 1297 words)

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