Miss Oklahoma Wins

The Miss America pageant has suffered a bit of a come-down, and departed the networks this year for Country Music Television. The pageant tried to spruce itself up by moving to Las Vegas and putting on a more contemporary swimsuit competition. There is, of course, a certain tension between being a beauty pageant and being a scholarship program, which is how Miss America has billed itself in recent years.
In any event, Jennifer Berry, Miss Oklahoma, won the title tonight, rather predictably. Here she is:
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Personally, I liked the less-tall-and-skinny Miss Georgia, who played the piano well and turned out to be the first runner-up:
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On the whole, my teenage daughters–the core audience for televised beauty pageants–thought it was a good event. Maybe next year it will be back on one of the networks.

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Miss Oklahoma Wins

The Miss America pageant has suffered a bit of a come-down, and departed the networks this year for Country Music Television. The pageant tried to spruce itself up by moving to Las Vegas and putting on a more contemporary swimsuit competition. There is, of course, a certain tension between being a beauty pageant and being a scholarship program, which is how Miss America has billed itself in recent years.
In any event, Jennifer Berry, Miss Oklahoma, won the title tonight, rather predictably. Here she is:
capt.nvts10401220145.miss_america_pageant_nvts104.jpg
Personally, I liked the less-tall-and-skinny Miss Georgia, who played the piano well and turned out to be the first runner-up:
capt.nvjh10801200051.miss_america_pageant_nvjh108.jpg
On the whole, my teenage daughters–the core audience for televised beauty pageants–thought it was a good event. Maybe next year it will be back on one of the networks.

Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator.

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