The pressure is on as the young contestants have been starving themselves for months. But there’s a lot more riding on the outcome ofthe 33rd Miss Western America than poise, charm, and personality.There’s ego, bribery, and family honor.
Take 19 year old Lindsay McCain, Miss Texas. Once the girlnext door from Corpus Christi, she’s now catapulted into a semi-nationalspotlight. If she doesn’t watch out,she’ll use her fame to become as obnoxious and hard to get alone with as herparents. When Rose and Herbert McCain throw her a surprise party, she comes inwith a surprise of her own – a new fiancé she met at the pageant at Austin.
Over in California, contestant Terri O’Hare is hired on asthe spokeswoman for the financially ailing NatruLook Cosmetics. Well, sure shehas to win the pageant first, but that should be easy. Offer the judges a bitof money and we’ve got a deal. All she has to do now is walk a straight lineand hold her chin up – oh, and stop chewing all that gum! Wanna bet?
The Montañez family has a long tradition of winning beautycontests – back to medieval days, when the winner was decided by war instead ofjudges. Can daughter Juanita handle the pressure? Her parents paint a grimscenario for anyone who disgraces their family’s winning ways.
As things get closer, Lindsay’s new found beau tries to talkher out of pursing the title so they can get married immediately. She might, ifonly her father didn’t forbid her to see him. All the girls, we find, have oneissue or another, but they all agree on one thing – they hate Miss Idaho. Andwell they should. After all, she’s pretty.
Jim-Bobby Baker, the pageant host, has more than enough todeal with as the young “beauties” parade past him, sharing way to much ofthemselves as they reveal their deepest secrets, their fondest dreams, andthreatening to boycott the swimsuit competition. Truly, this set of young womenaren’t afraid to speak their minds.
Which one isn’t a “miss?” Which one isn’t a woman at all?Will the nudist be allowed to wear her preferred costume? And when, for goshsake, will this pageant be over so they can get something to eat? As thetension mounts, only one girl will walk away a winner, while the others justwalk away. From the opening parade of states through the four finalists, andthe surprising conclusion, Pageant Perfect provides a fresh and hilarious lookat today’s “modern woman.”
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