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She talks fast and efficiently, like Rosalind Russell in *His Girl Friday *maybe this is a by-product of growing up around agents. Today she's wearing a pale-yellow, vaguely peasant-y T-shirt blouse, a pair of expensive-looking jeans, and chipped black nail polish. 'I miss the social part, for sure,' she says of traditional brick-and-mortar schooling. (And come to think of it, if you add time spent on homework, my grade-school kids slog through longer days than the maximum eight hours of work and school that tween performers are allotted by state law in California.) Cyrus says she loves what she does, but there are drawbacks. She hasn't been in regular school since the sixth grade she's in 10th grade now, tutored on set or on the road for three hours a day.

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The series premiered in March 2006, was an instant hit, and what with everything else going on, Cyrus says, she hasn't had more than a day off since Christmas 2006 and doesn't expect to get another break until at least this Christmas. (Maybe.) And thanks to her comic timing and easy rapport with her dad, the country-music star Billy Ray Cyrus, who plays her father on TV, Hannah Montana is on occasion actually kind of funny, at least in comparison with That's So Raven or The Suite Life of Zack Cody. Cyrus is cute, but not too cute, and she sings with more character than most pop stars her age-you could imagine her voice, with its natural husk and its twang from her native Tennessee, turning into Lucinda Williams's someday, if she plays her cards right. Oh, and you can also buy Hannah Montana sheets and MP3 players and all kinds of junk. (Try getting that for your spare High School Musical: The Ice Tour ticket.) The subsequent cash-in film, Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, released in 3-D, set several records, including highest-grossing release on a Super Bowl weekend ($31.1 million) and highest per-screen average ever ($45,561) those numbers are either because of or despite the fact that tickets to Cyrus's film were sold at the inflated price of $15, on average. Her recent concert tour sold out 70 dates across North America and caused an uproar when tickets started being scalped for thousands of dollars, in some cases. Cyrus also has two multi-platinum records to her name (well, one to Hannah's name and one, a double album, co-credited to Hannah and Miley) and is the youngest performer to have two No. Hannah Montana is the Disney Channel's current crown jewel: its ratings for its target audience, kids ages 6 to 14, are second only to *American Idol'*s. Twelve-year-old Abigail Breslin might have an Oscar nomination, but Cyrus has stats. Certainly she's the biggest since Lindsay Lohan earned the right to vote and go to war. Still, she might very well be the biggest child star since Shirley Temple, give or take a couple of Macaulay Culkin movies, or an Olsen twin. I'm guessing that seriously overestimates her personal cut of the Hannah Montana pie. Condé Nast Portfolio magazine recently estimated that Cyrus is 'on track' to be worth $1 billion by the time she's 18. And not when so much money is riding on this one's continued public innocence. (She's also an I Love Lucy fan.) That said, I can't imagine that her minders at the Walt Disney Company want to see Miley Cyrus's name anywhere near the word 'sex,' not in an era when every under-age actress in Hollywood is stalked by the Ghost of Britney Future. She's earnest and sincere about her work-distinct characters are a good thing-and it's always nice to see a young star give a shout-out to her forebears. Noah, curiously, looks like Dakota Fanning. She's here with her mother, Tish, her eight-year-old sister, Noah, and somewhere between a dozen and two dozen paparazzi, who followed the Cyruses from their nearby home and are now waiting for Miley in the restaurant's parking lot.

She loves the dip and the turkey-melt sandwich. It's my favorite show! I love it!' says 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, speaking of Sex and the City over spinach-artichoke dip in a dingy Toluca Lake restaurant that for some reason, possibly native to the San Fernando Valley, is divided between cheerful families enjoying Saturday lunches and a glum row of barflies passing time by watching I-don't-know-what on ESPN Classic. Their easy on-screen rapport is a key part of Hannah Montana's success.

Miley Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, photographed in Calabasas, California.

So how'd she get so (relatively) normal? Bruce Handy journeys to deepest Toluca Lake to find out.

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Between sold-out concerts, multi-platinum records, and a hit TV series, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has some serious business riding on her 15-year-old shoulders-not to mention paparazzi on her tail and tabloid editors praying for her to pull a Britney.