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- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: All Smiles
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 81
- All Smiles
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Kathryn Jackson Fallon
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- <p> The women still smile brightly--in evening gown or
- swimsuit--but something's been missing from the Miss America
- pageant since 1980. That's when Bert Parks, 75, was fired as
- master of ceremonies and singer of There She Is, the ode to the
- new Miss A. as she takes a tearful promenade down the runway.
- This year pageant officials plan to bring Bert back for the
- festivities. "It's wonderful and very gratifying," says Parks,
- who has performed the song at least 100 times. His most recent
- rendition is in the movie The Freshman, where he dons a
- sombrero and serenades a Komodo dragon.
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- </body>
- </article>
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