Tuesday, May 26, 2009

<I love Miss America!> MISS AMERICA PAGEANT DATE SET: Saturday, January 30, 2010; PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT & CASINO TO HOST



PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT & CASINO TO HOST
2010 MISS AMERICA PAGEANT on TLC

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Two-Hour Pageant Event Returns

to Las Vegas and Will Air Live on TLC

 

President and CEO of the Miss America Organization, Art McMaster, announced today that the 2010 Miss America Pageant will return to Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for a week of preliminary competitions, culminating in a live telecast on TLC, Saturday, January 30 at 8 p.m. EST. The announcement was made at a press conference in Puerto Rico to welcome back the Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Program to the Miss America Pageant after nearly 50 years!

 

"We are thrilled to be returning to Planet Hollywood again for our 5th consecutive year," said Art McMaster, President & CEO of the Miss America Organization. "The 2009 Pageant exceeded our expectations, and we are continuing to build on new traditions in Las Vegas."

 

With the addition of Miss Puerto Rico competing this year, there will be 53 Miss America contestants sweeping into town in January to begin preliminary competitions in Interview, Lifestyle & Fitness, Talent and Evening Wear. 


“We are so excited to have the most talented, smart and beautiful girls in the nation returning here to their home at Planet Hollywood,” said Bill Feather, president of Planet Hollywood Worldwide Resorts. "The last four years have been wonderful experiences for not only Planet Hollywood, but for the city of Las Vegas, and the Miss America Pageant returning to our property gives us the opportunity to showcase our magnificent resort once again.” 

 

"The 2009 Miss America Pageant on TLC was a great success, taking the ratings crown as the most-watched program on cable," said Brent Zacky, Vice President of Development for TLC. "We look forward to working with the Miss America Organization and Planet Hollywood to make the 2010 broadcast event even bigger."

 

The three nights of preliminaries will take place on January 26, 27, and 28 at Planet Hollywood's Theatre for the Performing Arts. Tickets for the preliminaries, as well as the Miss America Pageant finals will be available to the public at www.ticketmaster.com starting in December.

 

Miss America has called Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino home since moving to Las Vegas from Atlantic City in 2006. Katie Stam, of Seymour, Indiana is the current Miss America.

 

The Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs and the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance. For more information, go to www.missamerica.org


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Saturday, May 16, 2009

<I love Miss America!> Miss America Organization Featured in the Wall Street Journal



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In light of the recent controversy that played out in the media this week, we would like to share this article with you published by the Wall Street Journal, which clearly promotes the Miss America tradition and core values that continues to shine above all others.

 

This article reflects that the Miss America Organization remains committed to providing opportunities for young women to pursue their educational dreams while maintaining their outstanding character.

 

Click here to view the article on the WSJ website, or read the text article below:

Pretty on the Inside? By: Bari Weiss, WSJ 

In Riyadh this week, 200 young Muslim women began a 10-week quest to be crowned Saudi Arabia's official beauty queen. To most Americans, "Miss Beautiful Morals," as the contest is called, wouldn't even qualify as a beauty pageant: Gone is the bikini competition -- these beauties will wear black abayas. They will compete instead to show their "commitment to Islamic morals," like respect for their parents. Pageant founder Khadra al-Mubarak was happy to distinguish her contest from similar events in the West: "It's an alternative to the calls for decadence in the other beauty contests that only take into account a woman's body and looks," she told the Associated Press.

It's true that most viewers of the Miss America and Miss USA pageants are not judging contestants by the content of their character, to borrow a phrase. But is Ms. al-Mubarak right to say that our contests are "only" about looks?

Witness the past weeks' scandal over Carrie Prejean. Ms. Prejean, who was crowned Miss California 2009, competed in the Miss USA pageant in April. When asked by one of the judges whether gay marriage should be legalized, she replied that she thought marriage ought to be "between a man and a woman." No sooner had James Dobson embraced the "courageous" Ms. Prejean than partially nude photos of her surfaced on the Web. Officials threatened to take away her Miss California crown, but Donald Trump, the pageant's owner, came to her defense. All of which is a reminder that, even in American beauty contests, more than beauty counts.

In the beginning, American pageants were just about looks. Miss United States, a precursor to Miss America, took place in 1880 at Rehoboth Beach, with Thomas Edison as one of the judges. The organizers insisted that women stand at least 5 feet 4 inches and weigh no more than 130 pounds. They also had to be unmarried (a rule that persists today). The publicity that contestants received helped them start careers in modeling, vaudeville or Hollywood. But World War II transformed the nature of the pageant. Miss America 1943, Jean Bartel, used her position to rally the country in support of the war. She sold more Series E war bonds than any other American.

In 1945, Miss America began awarding the winner scholarship money for college. In 1951, the contest further solidified its interest in character -- and lost some fans -- when Miss America Yolande Betbeze declared that she was "not a pinup" and refused to pose in a swimsuit. Though the pageant supported her choice, Catalina, the bathing-suit brand, promptly dropped its sponsorship of Miss America and founded the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.

Today, while the latter two have remained largely superficial events, Miss America expects its contestants to be "role models" and women of "outstanding character," says Art McMaster, the pageant's chief executive and president. He is quick to note that, unlike other pageants, Miss America is a scholarship program, not a beauty contest. Last year, the pageant helped tens of thousands of contestants at various levels of competition earn $48 million in order to defray the cost of college or pay off educational loans. Mr. McMaster describes the contestants as "wholesome, all-American kids next-door," with a "good moral standard."

But if the contest is all about character and scholarship, then why the bikinis? Mr. McMaster says that the swimsuit part of the pageant is a "tradition" and tells me that they've "minimized the scoring of it." How a contestant looks in a swimsuit now "only counts for 15%."

And maybe he's not just making excuses. Sure, many feminists have long argued that beauty pageants are just a step above cattle auctions. But beauty queens do what lots of women have always done -- use their looks to help get what they want. Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin and Diane Sawyer are all former pageant girls. Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist freed earlier this week in Tehran, was once Miss North Dakota. Miss America 2005, Deidre Downs, says that she started in the pageants to pay for college. During a short break from her surgery rotation at the University of Alabama medical school, she tells me that she expects her Miss America winnings to pay for her to become a doctor too.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist, decided to try a pageant when she noticed "that people were listening more to sports stars and celebrities than they were to politicians. I thought, well how do I get a title for myself?" The former Miss Canada and Miss World first runner-up has used her fame to advocate for causes like ending child executions in Iran.

"If you have proportional dimensions to your physique and you can do something good with it," Ms. Afshin-Jam says, "I don't see what's wrong with that." Would that women could have the same choice in Riyadh.

 

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