Time for Miss America to hang up her tap shoes
There is a point in every Hollywood star’s career where fans wish the star would just fade away. It is better to live on as a happy memory than to keep grasping at the brass ring of stardom and spiral down into a morass of B-list-or-worse actors. Once upon a time there was a clear career progression for much-loved entertainment characters: movie stardom led to television variety shows which turned into mid-afternoon game show appearances and ultimately ended up as a guest-starring role on “The Love Boat.” After that, it was mimosas on the beach in Kailua and royalty checks until the Ultimate Curtain Call.
The same is true for television events and in the Pantheon of Shows America Misses Because It Wants To Miss, no god rules higher than the Miss America pageant.
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Who discovered America?
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