Of all the pageants she's been to, of everything she's seen, she says that "the most distasteful is the behaviour of the parents and the way they act towards the winners".
But Ms Dinnage said Alana's mother June had put the money from the show into trust funds for her daughters, and was the "least pushy" of all the pageant mothers.
In some ways, "We Are One" was the kind of all-star inaugural pageant that also began the Clinton presidency: pop performances sandwiched between quotations from presidents — and, at "We Are One," from Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall — calling for unity and renewal.
Sometimes men walk in the processions with heads hidden and collars bloodied, all part of a pageant dating from the 9th or 10th century.
The nightmare of any pageant host.
The organisers must first overcome logistical issues stemming from finding a free stretch in the year in which to hold this gala of galas, this pageant of pageants.
It's election day in America, which is one of the great pageants of democracy.
When Focus Features initially wanted to film in Canada, the directors opposed it, believing the costs of flying all of the pageant girls and their families would be excessive.
The result, which cost $11.3 million and which the M.T.A. will officially unveil in a ceremony today, is a sort of snapshot pageant of all life as we know it, from the image of the Big Bang that swirls in front of the token booth near the 81st Street entrance to the bronze cast of Tyrannosaurus rex that towers over the downtown platform to the tiny Jesus lizard crawling up the wall.
They're gathered for the finale of the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant, the cross-country drag pageant that Flawless started in 1958, when she was a nineteen-year-old psych major at UPenn.
