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Mar 16, 2009, 12:30PM

Idol of the times

One of American Idol's more nuanced back stories.

Never thought of Idol having, uh, depth:

"In the Closet" could be the theme of this year's whole season, really. Lambert is not the only resident in this year's "Idol" house to have an uncommon identity or a bothersome back story. Reality -- and not the usual well-managed kind the show embraces -- is breaking through as "Idol's" producers strive to further the contest's popularity among a diverse array of viewers without giving up the fiction of a unified mainstream.

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