Anyone remember a very funny beauty pageant movie satire from 1975 called Smile? Directed by Michael Ritchie, with Barbara Feldon, Bruce Dern, Annette O’Toole (Mrs. Michael McKean!), Joan Prather, Michael Kidd, Colleen Camp, Melanie Griffith.
I apologize if the movie is not insulting. I may have jumped to the wrong idea from the poster.
Another vote for Smile (the 1875 movie, not the unrelated newer movie of that name).
The scenes with Dern in the shrink’s office with his kid are killer. As are a lot of other scenes.
Best movie about a beauty pageant ever. Drop Dead Gorgeous is a close second. (Mainly due to Allison Janney). Smile is definitely more “realistic” as to what goes on at a pageant.
Apology accepted.
I’m surprised no one has asked me how the hell anyone can “play the lamps.”
Can someone who released two statements that have been so widely distributed really be considered silenced? I suppose the one to the pageant company may have been reviewed by them before being passed along to the media, but is there anything preventing her from saying anything she wants on Instagram?
It’s possible that the pageant company is witholding some payment from her, or has some contract provision that would punish her for saying disparaging things, but I’d want to know more about how she’s being silenced.
Yes. Very good movie. I still remember the vaseline on teeth tip.
I remember watching movie critic Rex Reed on The Tonight Show around 1970. He had just been a judge at Playboy’s “Bunny of the Year” pageant and was telling Johnny Carson what it was like.
He was impressed when one of the Bunnies was asked to name her favorite entertainer and she immediately replied “Sir Laurence Olivier.” Then she added “I have all of his records!” 
I forget who it was, but another celebrity was once telling Johnny about the Miss America pageant, at which he or she had also been a judge: “A bigger bunch of virgins you’ve never seen!”
Reminds me of this sketch:
Step on a crack, break your mother’s back!
Can I call you Tip Toenail?
Complicated, I suspect, by the fact that pageants nowadays are including a lot more non-white women both as contestants and in leadership roles. This inspires a sadly non-negligible subset of pageant-watchers to expect a “decline and decay” model for pageant trends.
Add that to the ways in which beauty pageants actually are declining as a cultural force, mostly because more young women these days have more important things to worry about, and you get a media tendency to focus on pageant dysfunction.
(snerk) They had to be very careful filming it, in case any of the contestants inadvertently showed any ankle. 
My presumption was that she felt silences while she was still Miss USA, and now is able to speak out because she quit. But I would love to see what it is she can now say.
Alternatively, she signed an NDA that she wishes she could violate in order to describe what happened.
Either way, I didn’t assume the post itself was her being silenced.
I assumed that it was. If she was free to speak her mind after resigning, there wouldn’t be any need to conceal a message the way she did. The fact that she encoded “I am silenced” in an Instagram post suggests to me that she has more to say beyond the post itself.