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...MISS HARVARD PAGEANT. It’s what Miss America would be like if you were to upgrade brains and talent, and add a few men in drag. Presented by IMPACT to raise money for education and emergency relief in Kenya, Gambia, China and Nepal. Friday, March 14, at 9 p.m. Tickets $6, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Leverett House Dining Hall...
...Throughout the pageant of American history, there were people who opposed internment camps, who resisted McCarthyism and nukes, who refused to accept the principle of destroying countries in order to save them. It’s hard to know the difference they made, but we are obliged to assume it was real. Let’s all sign the walkout pledge, and when the day comes, walk out. Let’s not titter in horror over the news and then turn the page. As we feel our blood rise, let’s not be ashamed to react...
...wasn't ready to sink into retirement. Jack Nicholson called with a co-starring role in the dark gangster film Blood and Wine, and Caine's golden years kicked in. He galloped from the sleazissimo agent in Little Voice to the kindly abortionist in Cider House, from the beauty-pageant Svengali in Miss Congeniality to a dead Cockney remembered by his friends in Last Orders--winners all. (He also survived Mike Myers' idolatry of Caine's swinging-spy phase in Austin Powers in Goldmember.) Then came Fowler...
Crooks’ calm posture and bright confidence were honed in theater and on the scholarship pageant circuit. At one point, she accidentally entered a pageant intended only for girls of Hispanic descent, the Reina de Fiesta pageant. “They let me stay anyway,” she says. “The whole thing was done in Spanish, and my Spanish at the time was terrible. And we all had to dance to mariachi music. It was so awkward...
...long ago the most controversial thing about beauty pageants was the swimsuit segment. As the latest Miss World contest proved, those simple times are over. Hundreds died in riots last month after a Nigerian journalist suggested the Prophet Muhammad might have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made...