DAVID BIANCULLI

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THE 2015 MISS AMERICA COMPETITION
September 14, 2014  | By David Bianculli

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

Once called a pageant, and now renamed to reflect not just something less superficial but also something intended to last past the calendar year, tonight’s live TV special is titled The 2015 Miss America Competition. It’s still, in essence, the same beauties on parade event that began in Atlantic City in 1921, the year of Prohibition and the initial setting of Boardwalk Empire. The Miss America pageant, now on ABC, may have lost some of its luster of late – but hey, so has Atlantic City. Yet as cultural artifacts go, this particular event has enough history to warrant a peek.

 
 
 
 
 
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