Read the passage and fill each gap with ONE suitable word

It is not surprising that actors want to be pop stars and vice versa. (1) ..................... that is deep in a part of our brain that most of us manage to keep under control, we all want to be pop stars and actors.

Sadly, there’s nothing about the (2) ..................... profession that automatically qualifies you for the other, except, of course, for the fact that famous actors and singers are already surrounded by people who never say no to them. (3) ..................... the whole, pop stars tend to fare better on screen than their (4) ..................... numbers do on CD. Let’s (5) ..................... it: not being able to act is no big drawback in Hollywood, whereas not being able to play or sing still tends to count (6) ..................... you in the recording studio.

Some stars do display a genuine proficiency in both disciplines, and a few even maintain successful careers in both fields, but this just (7) ..................... a bad example for all the others. For every success, there are two dozen failures.   And most of them have no idea how terrible they are. (8) ..................... as power tends to corrupt, so celebrity tends to destroy the ability to gauge whether or not you’re making a fool of (9) .....................  .

But perhaps we shouldn’t criticize celebrities for trying to expand their horizons in this way. (10) ..................... there is one good thing about actors trying to sing and singers trying to act, it is that it keeps them all too busy to write books.