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During her senior year of high school in Wenatchee, Wash., someone suggested Turner enter a beauty pageant. She says she declined, as she had an image of the typical beauty pageant contestant--and knew she didn't quite fit it.
By the time of the competition, the Lampoon had decided that Miller would be its number-one contestant.
But when she was the only contestant to answer the question correctly, the result was a "surprising and really cool" victory.
Strike It Rich was arguably the creepiest nonpublic-access program in TV history. A quiz show, it featured contestants who were chosen for their desperate need of money: families who were about to lose their homes, the unemployed, the crippled, people with sick parents (this was before Medicare even existed...
Yet for all the perkiness and primping, the look is small-town, polyester. This is Sears, not Saks. The women would be prettier with smarter clothes and hipper hairdos. A few display true glamour and grace, but in general this is a triumph of starch over sizzle. The earnestness with...