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Swiss TV axes beauty pageant as viewers turned off
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss national television says it will stop showing the country's "Miss Switzerland" beauty pageant because viewership has decreased. The long-running show is a fixture of Swiss popular culture and winners are guaranteed lucrative...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Swiss Confederation, Mass Media, Television
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'Botox mom' recants story she injected daughter
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mother's story that she injected her 8-year-old daughter with Botox is once again raising eyebrows after reports surfaced that she made the whole thing up for money. Sheena Upton told ABC's "Good Morning America" and "Inside...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Botox (drug), Personal Service, San Francisco, ABC (tv network)
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'Miss Neo' upends pageants with Futurist wit
"The Miss Neo Pageant" "It is my privilege to present to you five incredible and talented women onstage," a disembodied voice announces at the show's outset, "all vying to win the respect and acknowledgment that supposedly comes with developing into...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Anne Hathaway, Sesame Street (tv program)
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Meet the ladies of 'The Miss Neo Pageant'
For RedEyeIt took Megan Mercier a few years to realize that the "Grrrl Power" motto she'd grown up hearing in the '80s and '90s might be a myth. "We were told that we could do anything in spite of our gender, that anything was possible, and so we expected it,"...Tags: Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Chicago Transit Authority
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Rednecks translate to greenbacks on TV
The singing vegetarian wanted nothing to do with the backwoods ducks. When Morrissey was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show last month along with the cast of A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the '80s cult rocker issued an ultimatum: Boot the...
Tags: Jimmy Kimmel, My Big Redneck Vacation (tv program), The Walking Dead (tv program), Television Industry, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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On Theater: 'War Horse' is a winner
Those who have seen Steven Spielberg's excellent cinematic version of "War Horse" and are planning to catch the stage production at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts may be wondering how on earth live theater can duplicate the splendor and throat-...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Entertainment Events, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Florida travel calendar for November
Check out festivals and events in November across the state.
View events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Dec. 23. The Cannonball Christmas Express. Tavares. On select dates, the...Tags: Authors, Everglades, Tomatoes, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Bodies of Water
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Florida travel calendar for September
Check out festivals and events in September across the state. Check out statewide events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 2 (Select Nights): Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party,...Tags: Authors, Bodies of Water, Tomatoes, The Walking Dead (tv program), New Smyrna Beach
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Bogaard hangs out with beauty contest participants
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard had to do one of those painful and thankless political tasks Thursday, hanging around with dozens of beauty contest participants at a press conference touting the 2013 Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA contests....
Tags: Entertainment Events, Donald Trump
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'Miss Holocaust Survivor' -- honoring history or cheapening it?
World NowTo some, “Miss Holocaust Survivor” sounded like the ultimate triumph -- crowning and championing a woman who had suffered the horrors of the Holocaust. To others, the idea of invoking Nazi terrors in the shallow setting of a beauty pageant was... -
'Posing Beauty in African American Culture' show at USC
Los Angeles TimesA fashion show in Harlem in 1963, a portrait of a contemplative Michael Jackson in 1981 and a picture of friends celebrating their prom night in 2006 are among images on view in the exhibition "Posing Beauty in African American Culture" at USC's Fisher...Tags: Miss America Pageant, Michael Jackson, Culture, Los Angeles Times, Michelle Obama
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Transgender Miss Universe contestant makes it to the top 12
The first ever transgender Miss Universe contestant may not have won, but she made a giant step forward in the beauty pageant. She finished 12th out of 61 participants. Jenna Talackova failed to make the cut to the final five in the Canada contest, but...
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