The Miss Florida USA & Miss Florida Teen USA

 Magazine of June 12, 2008

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Dear Miss Florida USA Family:  

 

Welcome to another edition of YOUR Miss Florida USA & Miss Florida Teen USA Magazine YOUR information source for everything pageantry in the Sunshine State. The 2009 Miss Florida USA Pageant is officially on! After six straight days of location shooting and one fun Seminar Day we are pleased to say that the Class of 2009 rocks! Check out each day in pictures at our Miss Florida USA Update Blog that features all that is the state pageant.

 

This week in Pageantry World News takes us to Namibia, Mexico and Vietnam as Miss Universe is only a week away. Florida USA Pageant News announces a season within a season and other fun stuff. The Fridays “Faces & Places” takes you to a contestant only dinner and a high tea on Hollywood Beach. GenArt keeps you ahead of the coolness curve while this weeks www.YouTube.com/MissFloridaUSA Channel Movie of The Week returns us to last Thursday’s first day of pretape fun! All the pageant news that fits to print on Thursdays and Fridays only at YOUR Miss Florida USA Ezine, the only Ezine in the pageant world!

 

Grant H. Gravitt, Jr.

Executive Producer

Miss Florida USA & Teen

 

 

» 27 Days until Miss Florida USA! 

PAGEANT NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

» Namibia: Stylish Beauty Crowned Miss Namibia

Elegant 21-year-old Marelize Robberts from Windhoek was on Saturday night crowned Miss Namibia 2008 at a glittering beauty ceremony. The first princess is 19-year-old Leani Roux and Kimera Markowitz-Karuuombe was voted second princess.

 Robberts who beat other nine contestants was awarded a Toyota Yaris car to use for one year, together with fuel, a safari at Etosha, a cell phone, a weekend at the Windhoek Country Club Resort & Casino, a camera, a return ticket to either Frankfurt or London, four return tickets to Cape Town or Johannesburg and six domestic flights, among other prizes. Robberts succeeded Marichen Luiperth who took the title last year.

Still dressed in their evening gowns whose color combination, material, design and the fitting showed off their slender bodies, the top five finalists were announced. They were Marelize Robberts, leani Roux, Kimera Markowitz-Karuuombe, Chuma Siboleka and Geraldine Goosen.

It was then time to showcase their calibre - one of the biggest attributes of the contest. The judges handed over their question papers to McLean and the top five one by one went through their answers. Simple as the questions sounded, adrenaline was busy at work as the contestants tried their level best to answer the posed questions.

Questions asked included: Is the Miss Namibia beauty pageant relevant? How do you explain to a tourist where Namibia is? What do you think corporate companies could do to alleviate poverty in the country? If you were to be crowned Miss Namibia, what charity work would you engage in and why? What three wishes do you have for Namibia?

The five handled their questions fairly well, so it was up to the judges. Then it was announced that the judges had made their final decision. Kimera Markowitz-Karuuombe was announced as second princess and Leani Roux as first. The annual event ended with a final announcement that Marelize Robberts is Miss Namibia 2008.

   

 

 

 

 

 

» MISS MEXICO UPDATE

Miss Mexico Elisa Najera poses for photographers during a farewell event prior to her trip to Vietnam to take part in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant, in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The annual international female beauty contest, run by the Miss Universe Organization, will be held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, next July 14. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

» MISS UNIVERSE 2008 SCHEDULE SET

The organizing board of Miss Universe 2008 pageant has completed the working schedule for competitors from June 17 to July 14 in Vietnam.

 

According to the schedule, international beauties will participate in many fashion shows in big cities of Vietnam. On June 21, they will attend a fashion show and a red-carpet party in HCM City. On June 22, they will model traditional Vietnamese clothes, and on June 24, Vietnamese ao dai. These two events will be aired live.

 

In the central ancient town of Hoi An, 80 beauties will take part in a street parade on June 25.

 

In Hanoi, they will join a party called “Ambassadors’ Night”. They will go to Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province after that to take a boat trip and participate in a charity gift auction. During this tour, the NBC channel will shoot a 9-minute clip to advertise Vietnam.

 

After the tour to Ha Long city, competitors will come back to the coastal city of Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa province to perform in swimsuits on July 2 and prepare for the final night on July 14. From July 2-14, contestants will attend many events in Nha Trang city.

 

Vietnam has nearly completed preparations for the beauty contest. The press centre has welcomed the first foreign journalists.

 

Nearly 400 experts of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) have been working in Vietnam since late May. The major stage of over 1,000sq.m for Miss Universe 2008 contest in Nha Trang was decorated on June 8 by MUO’s experts.

 

Vietnamese bamboo trees are the key image to decorate the stage. The stage’s background will be changed continuously with Vietnam's symbols, from Thap Rua (Turtle Tower) to Khue Van Cac in Hanoi, from Dong Son bronze drums to Nha Trang sea and Ha Long Bay and Vietnam’s images captured by NBC cameramen.

 

The major stage will be completed before June 30 to serve training activities for over 80 competitors from July 2-7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISS FL USA NEWS!

» SUPER SUMER MINI SEASON ANNOUNCED

For the first time ever we are offering the month of August for our Super Summer Mini Pageant Season. With new pageants forming in Doral (West Miami Dade); Boca Raton and Cypress Gardens we will give delegates the opportunity to qualify early for Miss Florida USA 2010 or be the last to qualify for Miss Florida Teen USA 2009. 

   

 

 

» MISS CYPRESS GARDENS USA 2010

We are very pleased to announce our newest title as we welcome this Central Florida legendary location into our pageant family. With a date set for August 23rd our newest pageant will be a part of our “Super Summer Mini Season” that gives delegates the month of August to qualify for our 2010 state pageant. Look for an announcement of director and information in next weeks Ezine!

 

 

 

 

» MISS BOCA RATON USA & TEEN USA

After a noticeable absence this past season we are proud to announce the seventh edition of Miss Boca Raton USA & Teen USA. We are presently trying to find a location in the region for a date of August 24th or August 30th or 31st. For more information email Pageant Director Grant Gravitt, Jr. at Telair@aol.com or via phone at (954) 924-4949.

 

 

» MISS DORAL USA & TEEN USA

 

The directorship team of Miss Miami Tropics has launched a pageant for those in the fast growing region of West Miami Dade County. Dates are yet to be set but

look for a mid August pageant. For more information call Pageant Director “Miss

Rose” Martinez at (305) 412-8034 or via email to missmiamitropic@aol.com.

 

 

 

 

» DEBONAIR DIVA TEAM TO PRODUCE MISS CAPITAL CITY USA & TEEN USA

Team Jacksonville USA now ventures west to lead one of our longest running and most prestigious titles. Miss Capital City (Tallahassee) USA and Teen USA will now be under the directorship of Charles Lee and his hard working team at Debonair Diva. Dates and locations will be announced in the next few weeks. For more information contact Mr. Lee directly at 407 310-9106 or via email at debonairdivas2006@yahoo.com.

 

 

» LAST CALL FOR AT-LARGE DELEGATES:

If you were a runner-up or special award at one of our local preliminary pageants this year you are eligible to compete at Miss Florida USA this year. But time is running out as the pageant closes June 15th. Call the pageant office at 954 924-4949 or via email at Telair@aol.com and secure your position in the greatest state pageant in the nation!

 

 

» MISS FLORIDA USA & MISS FLORIDA TEEN USA ON MYSPACE:

Be our MySpace friend at either www.myspace.com/missfloridateenusa or www.myspace.com/theofficialmissfloridausa as we feature the Miss Marion County USA 10 Minute Pageant at our Miss Florida USA site and the Miss Marion County Teen USA 10 Minute Pageant at our Miss Florida Teen USA site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper or Plastic?

And to think, it all started off with a chair...

 

Gen Art film program alums the Duplass Brothers rarely do anything the "normal" way. That's why they've become the poster boys for a do-it-yourself indie film movement known as mumblecore. It's also why their latest flick, "Baghead," a hilarious pseudo-thriller about a bunch of actors shooting a low budget horror movie in the woods, is opening tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Yep, you read that correctly, exclusively in Austin. Why? Because that's the town where these boys went to school, plugged into the emerging filmmaker scene and made their first successful short, "This is John," which played Sundance in 2003.

Suddenly the brothers were in business.

Two additional shorts, "Scrapple" and "The Intervention," quickly followed, and in turn, their first feature, "The Puffy Chair," which screened at Gen Art, won the Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival, garnered two Independent Spirit Awards noms and was an official selection at Sundance that year. Not too shabby for a road trip movie with such a quirky premise; as Jay Duplass has said, "It's [a movie] about people in their late 20's searching for love, and a big purple Lazyboy."

But enough about that big purple chair. The new film is about what Mark Duplass calls, "the funny, horrific, tragic, terrible life of being a desperate actor." As the name belies, the plot involves a man running around the woods with a paper bag on his head, scaring the bejesus out of people—in a way that is silly and terrifying all at once. The finished product—which like all of the Dupes' projects to date, features no celebrities, big budgets or large crews—feels polished for something created on the fly: "Our method is just that you do what you would normally do in this situation, and we record it. If we want you to do something different, we'll tell you."

Lucky for us, it seems like no matter how successful this duo becomes, they keep delivering more of the same far from normal but totally delightful indie fare. And if we ever want them to do something different (aka, join this www.sonyclassics.com/baghead for updates.

- Caroline Stanley

 

 

 

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