I recently had the thrill to talk to Lu Parker, our Miss USA 1994 and the author of “Catching the Crown.” She is a broadcaster out in Los Angeles and was an incredibly generous interview guest. I couldn’t believe that this superstar gave us so much time to talk and to learn about her incredible Miss USA experience.
By the way, if you haven’t checked out her book, “Catching the Crown,” try this link and get a few copies for all the pageant participants you know!
The masterminds behind The CW’s two most successful reality series will collaborate on a new project — for ABC.
“America’s Next Top Model” co-creator/host Tyra Banks and “Beauty and the Geek” executive producer Ashton Kutcher have joined forces for a new unscripted show. ABC has ordered eight episodes of the untitled project, the showbiz trade papers report.
The producers and the network are keeping quiet about the show’s premise, and maybe even spreading a little bit of disinformation about it. Depending on whose account you read, the series will involve either “beautiful people living in a house together” (Variety) or “contestants competing in a beauty pageant” (Hollywood Reporter). Those concepts, of course, are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Photos from 2008 Miss America Live! are
now available at
www.Printroom.com/MissAmerica
Purchase your photos today and begin to create special photo gifts such as greeting cards, t-shirts, coffee mugs, magnets, calendars, key tags, mouse pads and so many other collectable items featuring legendary moments from this year’s Pageant.
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Former Miss Korea Lee Ha-nui, otherwise known as Honey Lee, has been busy acting as a television broadcast MC and as a model for various CFs and clothing brands ever since she placed in the finals for last year’s Miss Universe pageant. And now she’s branching out into acting, preparing for her debut — in a musical.
Her rep explained that she’d considered making her acting debut in a drama or film, “but chose a musical in order to showcase her particular skills.” As you may know, she’s a noted classical musician, having majored in traditional music (gayageum, pansori) at Seoul National University. Not only that, she reportedly was in training as a vocalist under YG Entertainment prior to her Miss Korea win. She’ll begin rehearsals for the musical next week, produced by PMC productions (Nanta, which is what’s described as a “non-verbal performance,” conveying its message via music, dance, and movement, while incorporating a fair amount of traditional folk music elements).
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MUSKEGON — Ten of the top Miss America finishers and 18 Miss Michigan contestants, former titleholders and teen winners return to the Frauenthal Theater, site of the annual state pageant, to honor the new Miss America, Kirsten Haglund, one of our own.
Friday’s contestant showcase at 7 p.m. will be a fast-paced production — full of pageantry, fanfare and fantastic talent. Themed “Dreams Come True,” the two-and-a-half hour show will involve a cast and crew of 130 people, including performances by Haglund with her father and brother, said Producer Dori Matkowski of Walled Lake.
Matkowski, a former Miss Farmington (now Oakland County), has known Haglund since she was a young girl and asked to produce her homecoming show. Matkowski also owns Dance Dynamics Performing Arts Center in Walled Lake and came to know Haglund through Oakland County’s pageant program. Her children also attended Walled Lake Western High School with Haglund and her brother, Lars.
Haglund, 19, of Farmington Hills, will arrive at the theater via a horse-drawn carriage.
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The following e-mail went to all new members of the PageantCast Facebook group:
Thanks to all the new members signing up to this board. For those of you unfamiliar, the PageantCast is a podcast (kind of a internet radio show that you can listen to anytime) about beauty pageants and we encourage you all to listen each week to our new shows! We have some dandies coming up–you can find out more at http://www.pageantcast.com.
I’d also like to mention that we are looking for officers for the PageantCast group and if you would like to be one–nominate yourself. I’ll see what we can do about it!
We hope you like our new Facebook group and help us get the forums going and submit great photos when you go to a pageant! Great way to share it with your friends.
This weekend, I will be an MC at the Miss Galaxy state pageants for Wisconsin and Illinois so if you see me there, be sure to say hello and thanks for being a part of the show!
Tim
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Dani Reeves, Miss Iowa USA 2007, is our guest on Tuesday morning for PageantCast 112. We also include some exciting upcoming guest news and we have some new music from Dave Barnes.
See you tomorrow!
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