Word: pageanteers
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MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (CBS, April 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Dick Clark and Leeza Gibbons are this year's hosts, and new onscreen technology will show viewers up-to-the-minute scores as the contestants are winnowed. What is this, a beauty pageant or a game show...
When the Miss USA pageant takes place in Wichita this week, the smart money will be on the contestants from Texas and California. These young women, Stephanie Kuehne and Cynthia Nelson, both 22, may have a distinct advantage over the rest of the field. They have been groomed, draped and polished by two Texans, Richard Guy and Rex Holt, whose Lone Star protegees have walked away with the Miss USA crown five years...
...former dance instructors, who started their pageant business 19 years ago, earn a lucrative income from their operation of state and local pageants. That is because the Miss USA competition, unlike the rival Miss America system, is a profit-oriented venture. In Texas, Guy and Holt oversee a network of 40 local beauty shows. The splashy Miss Texas-USA pageant, which companies ranging from Subaru to Miller Brewing have been eager to sponsor, generates such high TV ratings across the state that the producers can charge advertisers $21,000 a minute...
Even for a country so security-minded that it assigned 1,300 soldiers to protect the contestants in a beauty pageant last year, Colombia's precautions for this week's antidrug summit are extraordinarily tight. Though a spokesman for the drug cartels against which Colombia has been waging an all-out war promised that they would not make trouble, the government is taking no risks. Hundreds of Colombian and U.S. undercover agents disguised as beach vendors, taxi drivers, bellboys and happy-go-lucky tourists are prowling the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena, where George Bush and the leaders...