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...waste her time on this train wreck is completely beyond my comprehension. Along with her best friend, Ruby, played by an annoying Joey Lauren Adams, Mona makes her way to the top through backstabbing and sabotaging her competitors. After a particularly vicious episode in which she glued her rival JoJo's hand to a burning baton, Mona is disqualified from competing in the county. Most unfortunately for her, she also discovers that she's pregnant, therefore disqualifying her from competing in any beauty pageant. Ruby, being the sweet, kind-hearted thing she is, adopts the baby Vanessa (the Pepsi girl...

Author: By Mildred M. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beauty gouged out the eye of this beholder | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...commissioner Robert Berke found he had a sixth case in five months of a young girl who tested positive for HIV. The county had recorded only 50 AIDS cases since the disease began to spread in the 1980s. Although Williams used 18 aliases, including names such as Face and JoJo, caseworkers went back to the six women and eventually figured out that they'd all had sex with the same man. Because of confidentiality laws in New York designed to protect people with HIV, Berke had to get a court order to publicize Williams' name so that more women could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEADLY SEDUCTION | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...heavy-handed. What transforms the show is Coleman's vital, jazzy score--his best since Sweet Charity--and Michael Blakemore's crisp, less-is-more staging. The show starts out in high gear with an infectiously cynical ode to self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White, as an over-the-hill hooker, brings vivacity and soul to Gasman's clever lyrics ("I'm getting too old/ For the oldest profession"), and the driving, up-tempo number Why Don't They Leave Us Alone turns the hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRING IN 'DA TUNESMITHS | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...reckless driving after she swerved off the road and hit some small trees. She was admitted to a local hospital, where doctors put 12 stitches in her scalp and treated her for a concussion. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.168%, well above the state's limit of 0.10%. JoJo Starbuck, a two-time world bronze medalist in pairs skating who has choreographed Baiul a number of times, said, "Watching her recently, I've been concerned that her lack of discipline would catch up with her. Her head has been turned by so many things since she's come to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Harvard students are attracted to HMUN because it provides the opportunity to teach high school students about international diplomacy, a subject in which they may not have much experience, according to Jojo C. Liu '96. Liu is under-secretary-general for the conference's Economic and Social Council...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Model U.N. in Full Swing | 12/16/1995 | See Source »

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