Even Miss America 1998 couldn't resist watching as men in drag lampooned last Saturday's Miss America Pageant with a pageant of their own - right down to the flowers and cheap crown.
It's an annual bash held the night after Miss America 2000 was crowned, and Kate Shindle - who wore the crown as Miss America 1998 - sang "My Man" during the show.
She wasn't just there to tip her crown to the spoof - she promoted AIDS advocacy during her Miss America reign, and the Miss'd America Pageant raised $15,000 for the South Jersey AIDS Alliance.
Even so, as far as she was concerned, "what's any pageant without a former Miss Whatever singing Streisand?"
On the other hand, the Associated Press says, the Miss'd America swimsuit competition was a rather disconcerting show of inflated thighs and muscular arms; the musical selections were "over-the-top atrocious," and the evening wear contest, the AP says, was, well, funny enough to bust a girdle among the 600 who attended - a mix of straight and gay, by the way.
For the record, the winner was Miss Tenee, all 6'3", 205 lbs. of him/her, who hit the talent contest in a purple Afro wig and brown velour dress which disappeared quickly, revealing a silk chemise, the AP says. Miss Tenee took the crown and a dozen roses and stepped down the runway to a crowd-sung reworking of "There She Is," the perennial Miss America standard.
