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Boxing is never a beauty pageant, but the sport turned acutely ugly last week in Madison Square Garden when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit the canvas, and the referee disqualified Golota. But Bowe's supporters, including promoter Rock Newman, stormed the ring, one of them smashing Golota over the head with a mobile phone. The crowd, smelling blood, started melees of its own, throwing chairs and punches until police regained sufficient control to make...
From the house's seditious masquerade ball to the "M. Adams" pageant, which this year included men dressed in eatable body wraps, Adams has traditionally added a radical element to the campus...
...entered a local beauty pageant just for fun, and I won," she says. "One of the judges is now my current manager...
...began going on auditions shortly after the pageant and got a part on "All My Children...
...postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...