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A pageant win's promotional leverage failed to produce any fame

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A pageant win’s promotional leverage failed to produce any fame

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The only other hope I had to leverage my win was the videotape my friend David Miller made of the contest. I decided to send the tape to David Letterman one night after watching a lame segment on his Late Night show where a pile of dirty melting N.Y.C snow was a highlight. I wrote Dave a letter telling him all about my Miss Alternative L.A. win and promised that I would make a more entertaining guest than a pile of dirty snow. My psychic friend Margaret looked over my clever letter, did her healing whammy on it, and assured me that I would be getting a positive reply from Dave and an invite to make an appearance on his show. But that never happened either. For all it’s worth, after twenty-four years, I am still the reigning Miss Alternative Los Angeles because to my knowledge there has never been another contest since. So suck on that, all you “real” beauties. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 59

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  • QUESTION: Is there real material here about how John Waters/Divine-derived counterculture pageants functioned — or about the author being the only and unrepeated title holder — worth chasing in later chapters for a fuller picture of this scene?
  • XREF: connects to: Winning an alternative beauty pageant yielded no real career opportunities — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 58; Winning a parody beauty crown produced no career advancement

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