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The triumph of Susan Boyle

Why are we so obsessed with an ordinary, middle-aged, unemployed, unmarried "Britain's Got Talent" contestant?
Mary Elizabeth Williams

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  • Friday, April 17, 2009 07:31 AM

    My mid-life crisis was to go back to the recording studio.

    I'm sick and tired of the entertainment industry always pushing beauty over talent. Susan and Paul--and all of them who are not swans--are saving us from our the marketing monsters that tell us we do not qualify because of age, weight & beauty.

    —T. Elizabeth Read T. Elizabeth's other letters

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