Sunday, December 13, 2009

<I love Miss America!> Dec. 6, your weekly pageant practice questions



Justin Rudd, mechanical, headshot, yellow background.jpgJustin Rudd's Interview Coaching & Pageant Paperwork Consulting
Growing up in south Alabama for his first 26 years, and now a resident of Long Beach, Calif., Justin Rudd has been active in the pageant world for more than 20 years as a judge, director and coach. His forte is phone coaching -- helping teens, miss and Mrs. clients with interview skills, on-stage questions and bio sheets preparation. Justin will call his clients (or you can come to his home) for just $60/hour/weekday; or $35/half hour/weekday. He has two volumes of pageant practice questions ($24.95 ea.) -- each having 1,001 unique questions; and a special collection of 140+ Mrs. questions ($15).

Rudd also emails five free interview questions each week to more than 4,500 subscribers of his Five-A-Week Club (JOIN NOW). Contact Justin@JustinRudd.com to set up an appointment this week. For details, visit www.PageantStar.com.

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INTERVIEW COACHING APPOINTMENTS with Justin are available this week.  Email Justin@JustinRudd.com to schedule your phone coaching or at-his-home session. And, Justin will pay the phone charges for clients in the U.S., since he'll call you for your session. YOU WILL LEARN...

  • What to do and when to get ready for your pageant interview.
  • What your bio sheet should say about you.
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  • The questions you're most likely to hear in a pageant interview .
  • Find out what not to say to a judge.
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  • Get help with your opening and closing statements.
  • Advice for your bio/info sheet.

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What do you feel is history's most useful (useless) invention?

2. What is your favorite word?

3. What is your favorite sound?  Why?

4. Other than your own profession, which one would you choose?  Why?

5. What word do you not like to hear?

 


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Finally, Rudd recommends subscribing to the free pageants@yahoogroups.com  list.  This is a mailing list which is a community of pageant enthusiasts.  This mailing list allows contestants, directors, judges, coaches and parents to send email to each other easily. Instead of sending email to everyone on the list, subscribers of the mailing list can send their email to one address, which will then automatically send the message to everyone else.  To subscribe to the list, send a blank e-mail to: Pageants-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

JUSTIN RUDD, a 40-year-old native of south Alabama, grew up fascinated with televised pageants.  While in college in Birmingham, he served on the committee for a local Miss America preliminary.  After graduation, Rudd co-produced the Miss Southeast Alabama USA pageants where both Teen and Miss winners went on to capture the State titles and competed in the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants.  While helping to prepare his local titleholders, he realized his talent for helping young women to achieve success.


Justin has judged, coached and/or directed pageants across the country in the Miss America, Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, Miss Universe, America's Junior Miss, Miss Young America and Mrs. International, Mrs. United States, Mrs. America pageant systems as well as other local and regional programs.

His pageant services range from intensive one-on-one interview coaching and fitness training to bio/fact sheet critiquing and offering clients his collection of 1,001 pageant interview practice questions ($24.95 at www.PageantStar.com).  He also coordinates the Five-A-Week Club, whereby pageant hopefuls are sent five practice interview questions in their weekly e-mail.  He has produced numerous local and regional pageants and has served as a judge and board member of various pageants since 1989.

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Monday, December 7, 2009

<I love Miss America!> Miss America judges announced



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 2010 Miss America Pageant Puts the Spotlight

On National Judges
Saturday, January 30, 2010


Live from Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, on TLC

 

Linwood, N.J., December 7, 2009 – The 2010 Miss America Pageant promises to be an exciting event with the announcement of the strikingly diverse panel of national judges.  This year's panel of seven esteemed judges includes a Miss America turned opera singer and philanthropist; an accomplished actress; an Olympic gold medalist; a six-time Grammy nominee; the most listened-to radio talk show host in America; a successful comedian, and an American Idol finalist.  They will evaluate the contestants from the preliminaries through the final night of competition, which will be premiering live from Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:00PM ET live/PT tape-delayed,  exclusively on TLC. 

 

The judges were announced by Sam Haskell, III, Chairman of the Board for the Miss America Organization (MAO), Art McMaster, President and CEO of MAO, and Anthony Eaton, Producer of the 2010 Miss America Pageant.  This year's panel of judges is comprised of experts in each of the fields that a young woman must excel in, in order to be named Miss America.  Miss America must be talented, intelligent and well-spoken, a leader, have a commitment to her community, be contemporary in her style and fashion - a relatable and individual ‘it girl' who can connect with today's modern woman, as well as being physically fit.   To determine who will be Miss America 2010 the following panel of judges has been selected:

 

From the Field of Beauty - Vivica A. Fox – Fox is an accomplished actress and producer that has appeared on both the small and big screens in every type of genre.  She is currently the host of the new reality series, "The Cougar,” and returned for the 2009 season of Larry David's HBO hit comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm as the feisty "Loretta Black.” She is the recipient of numerous awards including the NAACP Spirit Award, the NAACP Image Award and Prism Award, the Trumpet Award for Outstanding Career Achievements in Film, the Lady of Soul Lena Horne Career Achievement Award and an MTV Movie Award.  She was also named as one of People Magazine's fifty most beautiful people.

 

From the Field of Community Service - Miss America 2002 Katie Harman – Since her year, Harman tours nationally and internationally as an acclaimed classical and operatic vocalist with a myriad of opera and musical theater companies, symphony orchestras, and special events.  Also a recording artist and television personality, she can next be seen in a principal role as a singer on HBO's Big Love (airing March 2010).  An active cancer advocate, she serves on numerous boards of cancer organizations and hospitals and is the National Spokesperson for the Touched by Cancer Organization.  Additionally, her philanthropic efforts target women's issues, homelessness, and arts education.

 

From the Field of Fitness - Shawn Johnson – Johnson is an 2008 Olympic gold medalist for gymnastics. She was named the 79th Amateur Athletic Union Sullivan Award recipient, one of the most prestigious honors in amateur sports and became the youngest ever contestant and season eight champion on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Johnson is also involved in programs that promote healthy nutrition and exercise and help build good character amongst youth across the country. 

 

From the Field of Talent – Dave Koz - Koz is a six-time Grammy nominee, multi platinum pop instrumentalist. Recently honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Koz hosts an afternoon radio show that's nationally distributed on the Smooth Jazz Radio Network as well as the syndicated Dave Koz Radio Show, now in its 15th year and airing on weekends in approximately 120 markets. He has served for 17 years as global ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation and is an ongoing member of the Board Of Governors for the Grammy® Foundation.

 

From the Field of Communications/Interview - Rush Limbaugh - Limbaugh is the outspoken, conservative and ultra-popular host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, an AM/FM radio show about American politics with an audience of 20 million. Limbaugh is involved in charities including the Marine Corps – Law Enforcement Foundation and the Leukemia Lymphoma Foundation. He is a best-selling author and was nominated in 2007 for the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

From the Field of Entertainment – Paul Rodriguez – Rodriguez is an actor and comedian whose career spans more than two decades and includes starring roles and featured appearances in over 40 films and countless television series and specials. Throughout his career Paul has remained involved with various charitable, civic and educational organizations including the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. As Chairman of the California Latino Water Coalition, Rodriguez was recently honored with a Humanitarian of the Year Award for his work on behalf of water conservation.

 

From the Field of Creating America's Rising TalentBrooke White – White is a singer and songwriter who is most known for her appearance as a finalist on season seven of American Idol. She recently released her debut album, High Hopes & Heartbreak, in which she shares with the world, her love for the music that has shaped her.
 

Media who wish to cover the 2010 Miss America Pageant can download a Press Credential application online at www.MissAmericaPressRoom.com, where up-to-the-minute competition news and information, as well as downloadable high resolution images of Miss America 2009 Katie Stam and the 2010 contestants are located.

 

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