sexta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2016

26/02/2016

Irene Sáez se exhibió con el "zar de la belleza"

Yesenia Rincón Castellano

Junto con el “zar de la belleza” Osmel Sousa, y la modelo Athina Kliumi, esposa del director de orquestas venezolano Eduardo Marturet, se dejó ver la recordada soberana venezolana de 1981, Irene Sáez, luciendo radiante, a sus 54 años.

El presidente de la Organización Miss Venezuela, se mostró sonriente y con el cabello plateado, que cambió para lucir en la nueva temporada de Nuestra Belleza Latina.

Sousa cuenta en el pie de foto que tuvo un ameno desayuno en un restaurante de Miami, con quien él siempre llamó “su Miss Universo más fácil de lograr”, Irene Sáez, y Kliumi, modelo alemana de ascendencia griega.

Más de un centenar de comentarios en la publicación evidenciaron cómo el público queda asombrado con la belleza de la reina venezolana.

“Esa mujer asiste actualmente a un concurso de belleza y vuelve a ganar”, alabó uno de los tantos seguidor es de Sousa que realizaron comentarios y halagos a la también politóloga y empresaria.

Irene Sáez vive en Miami desde el año 202, está casada con Serafín García, un empresario millonario de 71 años, quien es su segundo matrimonio, pues estuvo casada primero con el abogado Humberto Briceño León (en 1999), con quien tuvo a su único hijo Eduardo José (2000).

Con su actual esposo y su hijo vive en Miami desde el 2002, el mismo año en que se divorció. Luego, Sáez ingresó en la junta directiva del Colonial Bank of South Florida.

Desde su renuncia a la Gobernación de Nueva Esparta en 1999, en la que tan solo duró 11 meses de estar en el cargo, se alejó por completo de las cámaras e incluso de los certámenes de Miss Universo, en los que solía participar como jurado. Es imagen de una empresa de su esposo.

http://www.panorama.com.ve/espectaculos/Irene-Saez-se-exhibio-con-el-zar-de-la-belleza-20160226-0008.html

Yolande Betbeze Fox, a Miss America who rebelled, dies at 87

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By Adam Bernstein February 25 at 8:07 PM

Before she was an alluring mainstay of Washington’s watusi-era salons and soirees, Yolande Betbeze Fox was a rebellious, convent-educated, Alabama-born beauty queen. As Miss America of 1951, she alarmed organizers when she refused to squeeze into a bathing suit for cheesecake photos, publicly lambasted the pageant for excluding minorities, and picketed for civil rights.

In a life as nonconformist as it was glamorous, she was also an off-Broadway producer, sped off to Cuba with a rodeo, married a onetime Hollywood “wonder boy,” and was the longtime companion of an Algerian revolutionary-turned-diplomat.

In 1966, when she contemplated running for Congress in an Alabama district that included her home town of Mobile, her then-paramour, the architect Edward Durrell Stone, observed that she would dramatically improve her chances if she renounced her membership in the NAACP.

Mrs. Fox, whose independent-mindedness in that era was perhaps best defined by her quip “I’m a Southern girl, but I’m a thinking girl,” died Feb. 22 at an assisted-living home in Washington. She was 87 and the cause was lung cancer, said her daughter, Dolly Fox.

Raven-haired and statuesque, she first began turning heads as Yolande Betbeze (pronounced Yo-lond Bet-bees). While attending an Alabama Jesuit college, she won the campus title of “Miss Torch.” She was also a coloratura soprano, was well read in philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer and David Hume, and was determined to harness her brains and beauty to advance her opportunities.

“I entered the Miss Alabama contest because it was still a via aperta,” she once told The Washington Post, “and because it was one possible way to get out of the South. I knew that I was really a very good singer and that I could do serious opera even though my braces made me sing German lieder with a pronounced lisp.”

A Mobile music critic, beguiled by her talent and charm, urged her to enter the Miss Alabama contest, which she clinched (braces removed) with her performances of works by Schubert and Gershwin. Then it was on to Atlantic City, singing the “Caro nome” aria from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/yolande-betbeze-fox-a-miss-america-who-rebelled-dies-at-87/2016/02/25/32374126-dbda-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html

Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America Who Defied Convention, Dies at 87

By SAM ROBERTSFEB. 25, 2016

Yolande Betbeze Fox picketed a Woolworth’s in Times Square in 1960 in support of black sit-ins in the South.Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

Yolande Betbeze Fox, a convent-educated Alabamian who defied convention, and set new standards, by refusing to tour the country as Miss America of 1951 in revealing bathing suits, died on Monday in Washington. She was 87.

Her death was confirmed by the Joseph Gawler’s Sons funeral home in Washington.

By the time Ms. Fox won her title on Sept. 9, 1950, in Atlantic City, pageant officials, trying to calibrate propriety and sex appeal amid changing mores, had already decided to stop crowning Miss America while she was wearing a swimsuit. That pageant staple had been confined to the swimsuit competition, an event Ms. Fox — Ms. Betbeze at the time — had already won. She began her reign in a gown.

But given that the swimsuit competition’s chief sponsor, Catalina, manufactured swimwear, Ms. Fox was still expected to model bathing suits as the reigning Miss America.

What the organizers did not expect was her response. “Yolande declared, ‘I’m an opera singer, not a pinup!’ and refused posing in a bathing suit again,” according to her official biography on the pageant’s website.

As a result, Catalina withdrew as the pageant sponsor and began the rival Miss USA contest.

“In Yolande’s words, she made a stand for ‘propriety’ that has gone down as a significant flash of pageant history and altered the course of its future,” the official biography says.

Ms. Fox put it another way in an interview with The Washington Post in 1969: “There was nothing but trouble from the minute that crown touched my head.”

Ms. Fox never fulfilled her goal of becoming a professional opera singer, though she belted out “Caro Nome” from “Rigoletto” in the talent competition. But she used her newfound fame to become a model, theatrical producer and social activist.

She participated in a vigil in 1953 at Sing Sing prison to protest the impending execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Manhattan couple convicted of conspiring to commit espionage. She joined civil rights protesters in picketing a Woolworth’s in Times Square in 1960 to support black sit-ins at the store’s lunch counters in the South. (“I’m a Southern girl, but I’m a thinking girl,” she said.) And she joined demonstrations against nuclear weapons.

In a 2006 profile, Smithsonian magazine said Ms. Fox’s “exotic Basque looks” — she was of Basque ancestry — and her rebellious streak may have made her “the most unconventional Miss America ever.”

Yolande Betbeze (her mother picked her given name from a book of medieval history) was born in Mobile, Ala., on Nov. 29, 1928, the daughter of William and Ethel Betbeze. Her father was a butcher.

She was educated in Roman Catholic convent schools and the extension division of the University of Alabama. She began her beauty contest career in 1949, when she won Spring Hill College’s Miss Torch pageant. She entered the Miss Alabama competition hoping to win a scholarship to study singing in New York.

After her one-year reign, she studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York; married Matthew Fox, a movie executive (they had a daughter, Yolande Fox Campbell, who survives her, along with a granddaughter); and produced theater in a playhouse on East Houston Street.

She later moved to Washington, where she bought the Georgetown mansion formerly owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and became a fixture of the capital’s social scene.

In the 1960s, Ms. Fox criticized the Miss America pageant for its lack of ethnic and racial diversity. “ ‘How could we say it’s Miss America,’ I asked, ‘if it’s not open to all Americans?’ ” she was quoted saying in “Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations,” a 2011 book by Roy Hoffman. In the 1970s, she said the pageant perpetuated sexist attitudes.

“Today,” the Miss America website says, “Yolande feels her actions have been pivotal in directing pageant progress towards recognizing intellect, values and leadership abilities, rather than focusing on beauty alone.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/us/yolande-betbeze-fox-miss-america-who-defied-convention-dies-at-87.html

Inspired by Pia Wurtzbach, Bb. Pilipinas 2016 is a year of 'repeaters'

By Coconuts Manila February 25, 2016 / 16:44 PHT

Will we have another Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach this year? PHOTO: Missosology.info

Will we have another Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach this year? By that we don't mean a "sureball" Miss Universe winner but a "repeater."

Binibining Pilipinas just released its list of official candidates for this year's pageant, and we noticed that a lot of them, just like the reigning Miss Universe, had joined the beauty pageant in the past — and lost.

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Out of the 40 candidates, eight have joined previous editions of Bb. Pilipinas. They were perhaps inspired by Pia, who joined the local pageant in 2013 and 2014 before winning the Miss Universe Philippines title in 2015 (and, eventually, the 2015 Miss Universe crown).

Most notable among the current batch of repeaters is Kylie Verzosa, who made it to the top 15 of last year's Bb. Pilipinas pageant. Nichole Manalo, who landed in the top 15 in 2014, is the sister of Miss Universe Philippines 2010 (and now actress) Bianca Manalo.

Why is this a big deal? Besides Pia, a number of recent Miss Universe Philippines titleholders are also Bb. Pilipinas repeaters, namely Mary Jean Lastimosa (2011, 2012, 2014) and Janine Tugonon (2011, 2012). The 2016 Bb. Pilipinas pageant will be held on April 17.

Check them out! All images are from Bb. Pilipinas/Bruce Casanova

Check out the 40 official candidates of the 2016 Bb. Pilipinas pageant here.

http://manila.coconuts.co/2016/02/25/inspired-pia-wurtzbach-bb-pilipinas-2016-year-repeaters

Pia Wurtzbach hailed as Aid for AIDS ‘HIV Prevention Ambassador’

by Ces Dimalanta
February 26, 2016

image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Pia-Aid-for-AIDS2.jpg

AFA Founder Jesus Aguais and Director of Operations Dr. Jaime Valencia hands Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach her certificate as the organization’s HIV Prevention Ambassador. (Photo from Aid for AIDS’ Instagram post [@aidforaids], published on February 26, 2016)

Staying true to the causes she mentioned during the 64^th Miss Universe pageant, now reigning Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is back at combating HIV/AIDS through a partnership with Aid for AIDS (AFA) and was dubbed as “HIV Prevention Ambassador” by the organization.

AFA has been a partner of the Miss Universe Organization starting in 2003 and has since been committed to improve the quality of life of those with HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean. The non-profit organization also educates people about basic HIV/AIDS care.

The 26-year-old beauty queen recently visited the AFA headquarters, reaffirming the alliance of AFA and the Miss Universe Organization for an HIV-free society. Together with the Miss Universe Organization and AFA team, Wurtzbach joined a workshop on Friday (February 26, Philippine time) about the realities and challenges of HIV.

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AFA officials showed Pia Wurtzbach their medicine storage and explained how they distribute medication worldwide. (Photo from Aid for AIDS’ Instagram post [@aidforaids], published on February 26, 2016)

AFA founder Jesus Aguais and Director of Operations Dr. Jaime Valencia gave Wurtzbach her certificate as an HIV Prevention Ambassador after the workshop. She is now the 6th Miss Universe to be given the said title.

AFA’s workshop with Miss Universe focused on global statistics, HIV and its relation with the LGBT community, and Gender and Sexuality, wherein Wurtzbach also had the chance to exchange opinions with the team. She then took to social media to inform all her followers about her cause.

image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Pia-Aid-for-AIDS5.jpg

(Photo from Miss Universe Instagram post [@missuniverse], published on February 26, 2016)

“HIV is not an issue of ‘others’, it is a matter of everyone. Get involved!” stated Wurtzbach in her post on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook on the same day.

The Miss Universe 2015 title holder also thanked the organization “for a day of learning about the work (they) do (in) empowering communities at a risk of HIV.”

Nine weeks ago, shortly after being crowned as Miss Universe, AFA issued a statement to let Wurtzbach know that she could count on them to raise awareness about HIV on a global scale, shared the organization in the caption of their photo with the Filipina-German beauty.

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Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach together with the AFA team. (Photo from Aid for AIDS’ Instagram post [@aidforaids], published on February 26, 2016)

AFA expressed their gratitude to the reigning Miss Universe by baring photos of her visit to their headquarters.

“It is an honor for us to have had Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach visit our headquarters to learn more about the work we do and how we empower populations all over the world. Thanks Pia and the Miss Universe Organization. May this long lasting relationship continue yielding amazing results. We keep raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and Human Rights,” said AFA in their Instagram post.

Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/pia-wurtzbach-hailed-as-aid-for-aids-hiv-prevention-ambassador/#2MbszciIAxHlJzxs.99

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sexta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2016

Yolande Betbeze Fox, a Miss America who rebelled, dies at 87

Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America Who Defied Convention, Dies at 87

Inspired by Pia Wurtzbach, Bb. Pilipinas 2016 is a year of 'repeaters'

Pia Wurtzbach hailed as Aid for AIDS ‘HIV Prevention Ambassador’

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