Loren Rabinowitz at Miss America!

[Frau Muller]

The contestants have arrived in Las Vegas! Finals are a week from this Saturday (Jan 15) on ABC.

The following YouTube film shows each contestant being presented and giving a little speech. Loren, Miss Massachusetts, appears at the 14min35sec mark, if you wish to fast forward. She looks gorgeous and confident...if a tad too short for those huge stairs down the stage...but she negotiates them as gracefully as can be expected!

Go, Loren!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmWCOKJVMw&feature=player_embedded#!

[LuckyCharm]

That's so exciting. I can't wait to watch the pageant. LOL at the suddenly ubiquitous Boyz II Men!

[manleywoman]

Isn't there another skater from Colorado as well?

[rhumba]

Loren is going to be a pediatrician. There is also another contestant who is a physician, I believe, from DC?

[reese]

Best of luck to Loren, but I find it totally ridiculous that this sh*t still goes on.

[Ageless]

Yes, Melaina Shipwash, Miss Colorado, is also a former figure skater.

[stjeaskategym]

Best of luck to Loren, but I find it totally ridiculous that this sh*t still goes on.

:lol::lol::lol:

[skatesindreams]

Best of luck to Loren, but I find it totally ridiculous that this sh*t still goes on.

Before you condemn the MAO, you might read this:
http://www.missamerica.org/scholarships/purpose.aspx

Even for Harvard graduates like Loren, medical school is expensive.

[Jenifer]

Best of luck to Loren.

(although any "scholarship competition" that requires its winners to be pretty -let's not kid ourselves, has there been a homely Miss America?- is questionable in my books)

[reese]

Before you condemn the MAO, you might read this:
http://www.missamerica.org/scholarships/purpose.aspx

Even for Harvard graduates like Loren, medical school is expensive.

I hate this line of argument. Any scholarship program that requires "applicants" to parade around in swimsuits is repulsive.

[Doubletoe]

Is the Miss America pageant even televised anymore? It was on the Country Music Channel a few years ago, then, according to Wikipedia, they didn't it want it anymore and TLC (The Learning Channel) picked it up. Is TLC still broadcasting it this year?

[LuckyCharm]

Actually, it's on ABC this year:

http://abc.go.com/shows/2011-miss-america-pageant?cid=showsitelinks_search

[aliona22]

Any scholarship program that requires "applicants" to parade around in swimsuits is repulsive.

totally agree :respec:

[neptune]

Is the Miss America pageant even televised anymore? It was on the Country Music Channel a few years ago, then, according to Wikipedia, they didn't it want it anymore and TLC (The Learning Channel) picked it up. Is TLC still broadcasting it this year?

No. I heard that Ice Network will be streaming it live, though. ;)

[Bonita]

Why did she lose the Galler- part of her name? It was so weird to see her call herself Loren Rabinowitz.