After a day of travel and an afternoon in my favorite neighborhood in America, I'm back and reporting live from New Hampshire. But the travel's not done. For the next three days, the Mousseaus will be piling into our bright yellow Volkswagen T2 Microbus and hitting the road each night to support my sister in the (Little) Miss New Hampshire Pageant! So, as Sarah moves forward in her quest for the crown, Little Miss Sunshine's Hoover family will be moving across the banner. And the Report will be celebrating some of the fine cultural touchstones that have come to us as a result of the wide world of pageantry.
Little Miss Sunshine is obviously the pinnacle of these products of pageantry, and possibly my favorite movie. (E.T. and I are still grappling with this recent realization.) Hilarious and heartwarming, with the cheesiest cover of America the Beautiful, it's certainly the best film to feature Proust scholars, Nietzsche, and ice cream. And I think it served as one of Sarah's major inspirations as she prepared her talent portion of this year's pageant. And I can't wait to dance with her!
If Little Miss Sunshine takes the title, then Miss Congeniality must go to... Miss Congeniality, mostly because of the great Sir Michael Caine. His Britishness gives him great insight into the crown. Most of all, though, it's a perfect reminder of this pageant's perfect timing. There is no better date for a pageant than April 25th, simply because April 25th is the perfect date. It's not too hot, it's not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
Now it's time for me to take off. Grandpa's in the trunk of our car, I've stopped speaking because of Friedrich Nietzsche, and -- Where's Olive?
Wish us luck!
"A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try." - Alan Arkin as Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine
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