Jackpot: Fifty Out Of Work Beauty Queens

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By Mack Rawden
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The ‘Miss America Pageant’ is a lot like Pat Boone. Fifty years ago, he was on top of the world; thirty years ago, somewhat important; ten years ago, a slight blip on the cultural meteorology map; and now, less relevant than a Grover Cleveland product endorsement. Could you even pick Miss America out of a lineup? Maybe if she had on a name tag, her sash, and a come hither look.

According to Zap2It.com ‘Miss America’ has taken one more step towards complete and total obscurity. ‘Country Music Television’ has announced its intentions to drop the beauty pageant. What could possibly be worse than being dropped by ‘CMT?’ I guess they had to make room for more episodes of ‘Trick My Truck.’

‘Miss America’ executives will continue to look for a new home. Maybe they’ll end up on ‘TV Guide Channel’ with Joan Rivers.

Mack Rawden
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Mack Rawden is the Editor-In-Chief of CinemaBlend. He first started working at the publication as a writer back in 2007 and has held various jobs at the site in the time since including Managing Editor, Pop Culture Editor and Staff Writer. He now splits his time between working on CinemaBlend’s user experience, helping to plan the site’s editorial direction and writing passionate articles about niche entertainment topics he’s into. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English (go Hoosiers!) and has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications including Digiday. Enthusiastic about Clue, case-of-the-week mysteries, a great wrestling promo and cookies at Disney World. Less enthusiastic about the pricing structure of cable, loud noises and Tuesdays.