Tara Conner Donald Trumps Vanessa Williams
Isabel P. Ball
December 22, 2006
Living up to his name, Donald Trump, turned out to be Tara Conner’s real trump card.
Saddled with fastidious allegations, the young Miss USA from Kentucky, Tara Conner, just turned 21--for days--teetered from hurls of a “Miss Behaving” epithet flashing on the news screens. The wires choked with news innuendoes, like a rising thermometer cresting into a frenzy of reports of a possible termination of the embattled Tara Conner of her Miss America reign. With it, a disconcerting perception of yet another scandal dragging the Miss America Organization into another scenario of impropriety, from deeds of some of its crowned beauty Queens.
In a recent memory, Vanessa Williams, the first African American to win the title of Miss America, was dethroned when she resigned for allegations of moral imprudence. Nude photos appeared in the Penthouse September 1984 issue, allegedly taken before winning the contest. A concomitant allegation included lesbian dalliance, similar to one of Tara’s alleged misdemeanors, were regarded as anachronous then and now to the prudish Miss America’s standard of morality.
Tough luck for Vanessa Williams, the decision came upon her like boulders cascading down from the mountaintop; she didn’t stand a chance of salvation. The Miss America’s Organization decision was resolute and unforgiving.
Compare this to the recent press conference held recently, a staged trial of Tara Conner for her alleged misdemeanors of drinking, doing drugs, missing on her appearances, and audacious “liplocking” incidence in the public with the Miss Teen USA. A composed master of image control, Donald Trump, spoke briefly and succinctly. The highlight was his decision on the fate of the beleaguered Tara Conner, he based from few hours sit down with her.
Like putting words in his mouth, Donald Trump blurted, you’re not fired, was the verdict. Obviously charmed, and a charming tycoon himself, Mr. Trump, oozed with compassion in the litany of psychological punditry, impacts of the title and the transposition of the beauty queen from a country ambience in Kentucky to the Big Apple, as factors to the wayward behavior of the young adult Miss USA 2006.
Tara Conner, behaving like Alice in Wonderland is awed by the immense changes in her life. The beauty queen is evidently an individual with propensity to life’s leisure and pleasure, finds herself swept into the swirling force of intoxicating freedom, fame, and luxury. Poor Tara, catapulted into the height of Olympus at a very young age, seemingly has not developed, or has the character core to ride the celebrity crest with a bridled attitude.
Admitting in the press conference about a demon that all people have, and one that she also has, she prefers to deal it with personally. Atoning emotionally, and as tears began to shed, Tara, caused Mr. Trump to lift himself up from his chair, lunged and bussed the remorseful beauty queen, a show of a fatherly and unwavering support. Incessantly apologetic and grateful for him, a mortal with a “golden heart”, Tara appeared entranced with sincerity, as she beholds Mr. Trump in a demigod stature with providential powers to have whisked her troubles away in a breath, and reverting for her an otherwise irreversible career catastrope.
As the media pommels her with incisive questions, Miss Conner appeared beleaguered, and before anything she might say out of context is out, Miss USA’s Public Relations Officer takes to the podium, skillfully thwarted an impending media assault on the ramparts of the already troubled pageant organization.
More than an offering of truthfulness and transparency, the press conference was an exercise of cordiality, and leaving more questions than answers. If anything, conflicting statements only heightened the public’s curiosity, triggered by Mr. Trump’s statement that the allegations are “false,” and yet he admitted that the beauty queen is going into a rehab?
Our society is increasingly under the constant siege of drug and alcohol vices; it is seeping into the system structure alarmingly. Even in a high place of prestige and pride, such as the Miss USA, the contamination of drug and alcohol is now made apparent. Maybe it’s time for the beauty organization officials to do some soul search, and re-stock on values, as a more appealing measure to revert the slide of the organizations, as a wholesome entertainment and a rewarding business adventure.
Saddled with fastidious allegations, the young Miss USA from Kentucky, Tara Conner, just turned 21--for days--teetered from hurls of a “Miss Behaving” epithet flashing on the news screens. The wires choked with news innuendoes, like a rising thermometer cresting into a frenzy of reports of a possible termination of the embattled Tara Conner of her Miss America reign. With it, a disconcerting perception of yet another scandal dragging the Miss America Organization into another scenario of impropriety, from deeds of some of its crowned beauty Queens.
In a recent memory, Vanessa Williams, the first African American to win the title of Miss America, was dethroned when she resigned for allegations of moral imprudence. Nude photos appeared in the Penthouse September 1984 issue, allegedly taken before winning the contest. A concomitant allegation included lesbian dalliance, similar to one of Tara’s alleged misdemeanors, were regarded as anachronous then and now to the prudish Miss America’s standard of morality.
Tough luck for Vanessa Williams, the decision came upon her like boulders cascading down from the mountaintop; she didn’t stand a chance of salvation. The Miss America’s Organization decision was resolute and unforgiving.
Compare this to the recent press conference held recently, a staged trial of Tara Conner for her alleged misdemeanors of drinking, doing drugs, missing on her appearances, and audacious “liplocking” incidence in the public with the Miss Teen USA. A composed master of image control, Donald Trump, spoke briefly and succinctly. The highlight was his decision on the fate of the beleaguered Tara Conner, he based from few hours sit down with her.
Like putting words in his mouth, Donald Trump blurted, you’re not fired, was the verdict. Obviously charmed, and a charming tycoon himself, Mr. Trump, oozed with compassion in the litany of psychological punditry, impacts of the title and the transposition of the beauty queen from a country ambience in Kentucky to the Big Apple, as factors to the wayward behavior of the young adult Miss USA 2006.
Tara Conner, behaving like Alice in Wonderland is awed by the immense changes in her life. The beauty queen is evidently an individual with propensity to life’s leisure and pleasure, finds herself swept into the swirling force of intoxicating freedom, fame, and luxury. Poor Tara, catapulted into the height of Olympus at a very young age, seemingly has not developed, or has the character core to ride the celebrity crest with a bridled attitude.
Admitting in the press conference about a demon that all people have, and one that she also has, she prefers to deal it with personally. Atoning emotionally, and as tears began to shed, Tara, caused Mr. Trump to lift himself up from his chair, lunged and bussed the remorseful beauty queen, a show of a fatherly and unwavering support. Incessantly apologetic and grateful for him, a mortal with a “golden heart”, Tara appeared entranced with sincerity, as she beholds Mr. Trump in a demigod stature with providential powers to have whisked her troubles away in a breath, and reverting for her an otherwise irreversible career catastrope.
As the media pommels her with incisive questions, Miss Conner appeared beleaguered, and before anything she might say out of context is out, Miss USA’s Public Relations Officer takes to the podium, skillfully thwarted an impending media assault on the ramparts of the already troubled pageant organization.
More than an offering of truthfulness and transparency, the press conference was an exercise of cordiality, and leaving more questions than answers. If anything, conflicting statements only heightened the public’s curiosity, triggered by Mr. Trump’s statement that the allegations are “false,” and yet he admitted that the beauty queen is going into a rehab?
Our society is increasingly under the constant siege of drug and alcohol vices; it is seeping into the system structure alarmingly. Even in a high place of prestige and pride, such as the Miss USA, the contamination of drug and alcohol is now made apparent. Maybe it’s time for the beauty organization officials to do some soul search, and re-stock on values, as a more appealing measure to revert the slide of the organizations, as a wholesome entertainment and a rewarding business adventure.
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