Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. – Tommy Steele
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early