Miss American 2009 - Page 3

ZTAMich · #1 01-19-2009, 06:45 PM

I was at the last Pageant held in Atlantic City. I haven't watched the show on TLC but I will probably watch the actual Pageant - I love seeing the evening gowns!

VandalSquirrel · #2 01-21-2009, 01:57 AM

I got to meet some of the contestants as they were in Vegas last weekend. We ran into them en masse in the Fashion Show mall, and also wandering around town.

I sadly did not get to meet Mr. A C Slater

honeychile · #3 01-24-2009, 01:02 PM

Bumping for tonight's show! Are we all watching & commenting on this thread?

Benzgirl · #4 01-24-2009, 03:15 PM

It's finally over tonight!

Fleur de Lis · #5 01-24-2009, 05:38 PM

I voted for South Caroline, Tennessee, and Hawaii. I'm having my annual Miss America party tonight, where we wear tiaras and make fun of the pageant. :P

FSUZeta · #6 01-25-2009, 10:45 AM

i hated the way they had the talent be impromptu-how unfair that the contestants had to sing/dance/knit/usher in world peace on the fly. i felt that the talent level wasn't what it has been in the past and wondered if the format had anything to do with it.

i hated all the "inner-beauty" answers the contestants gave for their defination of "glamour". to me, glamour and inner beauty have nothing to do with one another. glamour is about style , elegance and sophistication. you can be glamourous and have inner beauty, but you can be oozing inner beauty and be the frumpiest woman on earth.

KSUViolet06 · #7 01-25-2009, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

i hated the way they had the talent be impromptu-how unfair that the contestants had to sing/dance/knit/usher in world peace on the fly. i felt that the talent level wasn't what it has been in the past and wondered if the format had anything to do with it.

Yeah. It's like if you have to be prepared to perform a ballet at a moment's notice, it obviously can't be a piece that requires a ton of preparation or is extremely difficult, or it may not work so well.

LeslieAGD · #8 01-25-2009, 12:21 PM

I wasn't happy with the winner. DH said her dress looked like a grandma's lace tablecloth over a slipdress. I thought her eye makeup was horrible...she looked like she was punched in the eye. Disappointing.

KSUViolet06 · #9 01-25-2009, 12:32 PM

Indiana was definitely not who I expected to win either. I thought for sure Miss Georgia or Florida would end up winning. I was like "what??"

PANTHERTEKE · #10 01-25-2009, 01:17 PM

Miss Florida > anyone else.

srmom · #11 01-26-2009, 10:46 AM

My husband (he actually watched with me

) thought Miss Florida had a "hot dog body" (too long of a torso).

I thought Miss Indiana was cute but hated her opera song!! Then, when she was crowned her hair looked like she had horns!!! Couldn't somebody fix that for her!

The next morning it was in the paper and my husband pointed out the picture with the horns - poor thing!!

I kind of liked Miss California and Miss New York, they could have been sisters.

What was funny for me was earlier in the evening, I was watching a video tape of the Houston "Miss Hawaiian Tropic" contest (one of my son's best friends is a model and he was one of the escorts for the women, so we were watching and giving him unmitigated hell). The whole group of them was the skankiest lot I have ever seen. Some of them were so awful that even my husband was cringing for their sake. What were they thinking????

Anyway, when we were watching the Miss America gals, we couldn't get over how overall wholesome they look. Quite a change from Houston's finest Hawaiian Tropic girls

ForeverRoses · #12 01-26-2009, 11:28 AM

This is the first Miss America from Indiana-- plus she goes to the Univeristy of Indianapolis and interned at two of the local tv stations, so it was the first story on the local news.

Both stations where she interned dug up old clips of stories she had done for them. I missed the song she sang, but I guess she picked it because it was a song that Sandy Patty sings (Sandy Patty also being from Indiana). I'm not sure how many people would get the connection, though.

honeychile · #13 01-26-2009, 12:49 PM

Miss America 2009

#14 01-26-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by srmom

Anyway, when we were watching the Miss America gals, we couldn't get over how overall wholesome they look. Quite a change from Houston's finest Hawaiian Tropic girls

I'm sorry, Miss Arkansas could have been one of those Hawaiian Tropic girls. Her evening gown?

Maybe it's the bangs. Miss Arkansas did not look like the typical Miss America contestant.

MSKKG · #15 01-26-2009, 04:21 PM

How does the "America votes" thing work? Miss Indiana was one of the 4 that America voted for. What happens if she is one of the judges' choices, too? Do they take their #12 choice to fill that space (15 spots, America chose 4, judges chose 11)?