I'm happy a full-figured woman won because it shows you don't have to be a stick to be successful. Whitney was criticized for being fake and a little too Miss-America-like, but that doesn't take away from the good that her win could do. Her Cover Girl ad is part of a Wal-Mart display. Who do young women want to see on Wal-Mart displays? Toothpicky high fashion models? No, more would want to see a curvy woman with a gorgeous face who more closely resembles them.
At the same time, this win would have never happened in other cycles. Does anyone think Whitney could have beaten Caridee or Melrose from Cycle 7? I think not. The contestants this go-round weren't that strong to begin with, and they fell apart toward the end (See: Fatima and Katarzyna).
Anya, the runner-up, was a sweet girl but she wasn't fierce in the last runway walk, and her voice made her sound incredibly ditzy. Which she may have been legitimately. When Paulina Porizkova tells you you look "stupid" in your picture, you're not winning.
Jack FM blew my mind the other day by spinning "Forever Young" by Alphaville. I'd never heard that song outside the context of the spring dance in Napoleon Dynamite.
I thought one of the goofiest scenes in the trailer for You Don't Mess with the Zohan is the one in which Rob Schneider dials the Hezbollah help desk. But last weekend, I read this sentence about Lebanon in the Morning News:
"Combat erupted this week after the Cabinet sought to rein in Hezbollah by ordering the removal of an airport security chief with ties to the group and demanding the dismantling of the movement's private phone network."
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