Word: pageants
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...couldn't stand her boss, then fell in love with him; here she's the boss and generic hunk Ryan Reynolds is the aggrieved assistant. And in her one solo hit, Miss Congeniality, she was a gruff FBI agent who went undercover as a perky contestant in a beauty pageant; this time she's a bitch on heels who has to impersonate a human being at the home of Reynolds' aggressively friendly family. (The Proposal also plays like the flip side of another weekend-with-the-family comedy, the Steve Carell Dan in Real Life. The few romantic comedies, like...
...Tetro's dancer girlfriend and taken her as his second wife. Bennie discovers an unfinished play of Tetro's, written in code, about two generations of animosities and betrayals. Bennie, who has long idolized Tetro, takes the manuscript, writes an ending and has it staged in a local arts pageant. That sends skeletons dancing out of the family closet for the therapeutic finale...
...impeccable”—the competition went on. Cabot and Holmes were the only dormitories that did not express any qualms about the competition, according to a Feb. 14, 1959 Crimson article.Carleton said that she had no idea that some dormitories had refused to participate in the pageant, but she did remember a “cute” girl in the dorm who did not want to get involved. She was aware that there was some controversy involved—she used to joke that the competition was canceled because she was so ugly that...
...feel that you asked Miss California a fair question, but do you regret the harsh treatment she received for answering her question honestly? - Barb McClintock, Houston I think by entering the Miss USA pageant, she made herself a public figure. If a civilian were to answer that question, would I think the response that she got was appropriate? No. But when you become a tabloid figure, which she did, the rules change. (See the top 10 beauty-pageant scandals...
...Some were beautiful, some were risqu, but, again, we're in the 21st century.' DONALD TRUMP, beauty-pageant co-owner, declaring that Miss California Carrie Prejean could keep her crown after topless photos of her surfaced online...