He’s been called rude, annoying, vain, smug and mean. But Simon Cowell, the music mogul who created and co-hosted the hit Fox TV show “American Idol”, was never nasty for sadistic reasons, he asserted: he truly believed that he was helping aspiring pop stars realize they had no talent. To Cowell, pandering was more cruel than telling the truth, because a contestant would continue pursuing a dream they would never realize....
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