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...heavy-metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome re-release and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind Waiting for Guffman, in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway bound...
...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 Hallie Kate Eisenberg), allowing Mona to continue her trek to gloriously oh-so-wonderful beauty stardom...
...heavy metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome rerelease and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind "Waiting for Guffman," in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway-bound...
...Democrats lavished a good deal of condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...
...conventions, by contrast, you'll see a micro-managed pageant that plumbs the depths of banality in search of narrative elements that camouflage two ambitious sons of America's power elite as salt-of-the-earth common folk. The ritual of the convention is designed to "show" the candidate winning the considered endorsement of the party faithful, but it's been so stripped of any space for real political cut and thrust that it's a little like watching "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" with contestants reading the answers off a visible TelePrompTer. There's about as much drama...