Mar 28, 2011

Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen (Shari Cookson, 2001)

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In this documentary produced for the HBO cable network, child beauties and their parents throw themselves passionately into the national pageant circuit made famous by the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. Presented with only a few factual intertitles and without voice-over narration, the 90-minute film focuses on delicate five-year-old blonde Swan Brooner and her no-nonsense mother, Robin Browne, as they try to parlay Swan's success at local beauty pageants into national recognition and cash prizes.




A pair of big-bucks coaches, Shane King and Michael Butler, train Swan to walk, dance, sing, and flirt, even as they continue to groom Michael's daughter -- reigning champion Leslie Butler, age seven -- for a comeback after a nine-month sabbatical. Following these and other players from one weekend contest to the next, the film climaxes with the Dallas-based Gingerbread Pageant, where Robin hopes Swan will win back some of the 70,000 dollars she has invested in the girl's career so far.


4 comments:

  1. jedva cekam da ovo dodje kod nas...

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  2. Hehehe, vezbajte na vreme!!!

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  3. mi sa sitnom zenskom decom jedva cekamo sansu!! i pocinjemo da se spremamo od danas...

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  4. hey everybody it's horrible that such little sunshines has to be a beauty queen ;(
    I'm sure that the girls don't like to do such terrible things. And what is that with the Make-up and the ugly and expensive clothes ...?
    I think the parents must be crazy and silly. How could they do that? But nobody has learned about the story with JonBénet Ramsey who was so a nice and beautiful CHILD, no WOMAN!!!

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