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...Vanessa Williams steps down, and the pageant lurches...
...last chapter, reigning Miss America Vanessa Williams, a spirited 21 and going for the glory, got caught in some compromising positions. Ten of them, to be exact, to be published in Penthouse, a skin magazine with the luster of a no-wax floor. Officials of the Miss America Pageant, aghast, asked for her resignation. Williams said she would think about it over the weekend...
...with lawyers, with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays...
Besides refusing to baby PS. Vanessa goes quite a bit further at times. The first time be glimpses her, she is framed in white light, tall and glamorous, and his eyes widen in wonder. But if she appears angelic, she also has a much darker side. Terrified of Australia's frequent thunderstorms, she rushes to his room and holds him quivering and whispering Logan's name. The scenes though not explicit carry some heavy Freudian overtones...
Though the rest of the script is occasionally stilted, leaving all the adults somewhat caricatured, the generally fine acting overshadows minor flaws Robyn Nevin, in particular, is a strong willed and loving Lila, who will not let her family be destroyed by poverty or by Vanessa...