We received over 400 applications, and will make final selections and notify contestants in a few days.
It was among the most egalitarian of American sports in the early 20th century, often including Hispanic, African American, Native American, and female contestants in an era when race and gender discrimination were commonplace.
She said that Trump's behavior put her and the other pageant contestants in a "very physically vulnerable position," and that his entrance was usually accompanied by "the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention".
(Dave Kehr) The Tenth Victim (Sunday) Film Forum begins a series of events in honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of The New York Review of Books with a screening of Elio Petri's 1965 black comedy starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress as contestants in a future world (21st century!) television show, where the object is to kill the competition before they kill you.
The new judges, along with Randy Jackson, the judge who stayed on, have started teaching and cheering on the young contestants in a way that Mr. Cowell rarely, if ever, did in public.
But given the recent record, it may well be worth looking down the field and selecting another two or three straight hitters who putt well such as Hunter Mahan, who came close to winning the 2009 Open; Jason Dufner, who is playing lights out on the regular tour; and Ian Poulter, the brightly dressed Brit or simply putting the names of all the contestants in a hat and pulling out one.
Ms. Lopez commandeered the good cop role, wailing and mugging over having to reject contestants in a this-is-harder-on-me than-it is-on you routine, which was all the more painful for rejected contestants.
Welsh language broadcaster S4C has locked a group of contestants in a house and forced them to learn Welsh in the latest twist on the Big Brother theme.
"You remind me of a little plague doctor," he tells all the contestants in a repetitious and unfunny comment on the basic character design of the Postman Pat universe.
Today one of the most common forms of sports gambling is odds betting, in which a casino or bookmaker evaluates the contestants in a competition and assesses the probability of victory: 2 to 1, 5 to 1, 1 to 4, and so forth.
