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It’s quite an understatement to say that there were hot girls poolside at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach for the week leading up to the Hooters 15th Annual International Swimsuit Pageant. An even 100 girls from around the world were mingling and doing the ultimate conga line while networking and chatting with anyone who approached them. This was ground zero for swimsuit hotties. With her aqua marine eyes, the bluest in all the land, Fort Lauderdale’s own Lindsey Way was selected out of the 100 Hooters Girl contestants to take the impressive $50,000 prize. She will represent Hooters for the next year as Miss Hooters International 2011.
The Pageant was held at the Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach. Dan Cortese hosted the event with a celebrity panel of judges including television personality Leeann Tweeden, Dallas Mavericks star Shawn Marion; UFC Octagon Girl Arianny Celeste, actor Verne Troyer and the Only Female Scout in the NBA, model Bonnie-Jill Laflin.
Bullz-Eye was again offered the opportunity to have near-exclusive online media coverage of this remarkable event. We were allowed access to some of the top girls prior to the pageant for photoshoots on the lavish Fontainebleau grounds during the Bud light Pre pageant welcome party. Special thanks goes out to Mike Harris and Brian Dunlap of Anheuser Busch for the assistance in their pool side cabana, and to Rachel Kelly for styling of the lovely Hooters models. Also, special thanks once again to Alexis Aleshire for all the invaluable PR assistance!
The top five winners included: 1st Runner Up, Janet Layug, Hooters of North Lakeland, Florida; 2nd Runner Up Sam Arena, Hooters of Cumberland in Atlanta; 3rd Runner Up Alex Dumrauf from Hooters of Clearwater; 4th Runner Up, Chelsie Hurst, Hooters of Saginaw, Michigan. Rounding out the top ten finalists in no particular order are Crystal Cunningham, Hooters of Downtown Nashville; Victoria Brown, Hooters of Baltimore; Casey Luckey, Hooters of South Lakeland, Florida; Juliete Cabrera, Hooters of Doral in Miami, and Afton Storton, Hooters of Anaheim. Lina Nguyen, from Downtown Toronto, was selected as Miss Hooters World, representing Hooters 29 international markets.
Check out the incredible slideshow above of photos from the pageant finals. We start with a photo of the winner, Miss Hooters International 2011 Lindsey Way, along with a photo of her with the other finalists, and then we go through the pageant from beginning to end with tons of beautiful Hooters girls. Make sure you also check back for more photos from the preliminary events along with some great photo profiles of the winner Lindsey Way, and the other contestants we met at the Fontainebleau.
UPDATED: Here's a video of the opening parade of beauties in their dresses at the pageant:
Check out the photo slideshow below for more amazing scenes from the pageant.
We’re sure Seth Myers will do a good job again this year hosting the ESPYs (which will be starting any minute), but the best opening monologue at the ESPYs will always belong to Norm MacDonald. The athletes in the audience had no idea how to react to some of Norm’s harsh jokes about other athletes. Make sure to watch the whole thing, as the crack at the end is priceless.
Summertime weather has kicked into high gear much earlier than usual in the greater Los Angeles area and it’s hot as we write these words at Drink of the Week Central. So, it’s as good a time as any to celebrate an appropriately cold and refreshing, and actually perfectly delightful, semi-classic cocktail that was invented in New York but popularized in what is now incorporated West Hollywood. Moreover, while the name of this drink might have once hinted at anti-capitalist subversion, this is one beverage with a history that any U.S. captain of industry or Russian oligarch can appreciate.
The Moscow Mule was developed by East-coast based Smirnoff manufacturer Heublein in the 1940s to help popularize vodka, then a poor seller in the U.S. market. The new drink hit it big, however, with the movie-star heavy clientele at the Cock ‘n Bull pub on the Sunset Strip. The pub’s owner, it turns out, also was the president of Cock ‘n Bull Products, which manufactured the drink’s other main ingredient, ginger beer. Since cocktails made with ginger beer or ginger ale were commonly called “bucks” or “mules” and Smirnoff was a Russian-derived vodka, the name must have been easy enough to invent.
Dissolve sugar in lime juice, bitters, and vodka. Add plentiful ice to Tom Collins glass or large metal mug. Top off with ginger beer. Throw in one of the lime wedges you used to produce the lime juice. Stir with a bar spoon or swizzle stick and toast the Cock ‘n Bull, which tragically closed down forever in 1987. (It’s now a car dealership.)
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The above recipe is actually our distillation of a number of recipes we found online. So, be aware that it’s entirely okay to use an entire ounce of lime juice or up to three or four dashes of bitters, though that will add perhaps more piquancy than some might be prepared for while giving it the same pinkish hue as the picture we’re using this week. (If you’re big into bitters, Moscow mules have also been made with Fee Brothers’ Whiskey Barrel Aged Bitters.) You can also use the minimum amount of lime juice and dispense with the sugar and bitters entirely. Still, when all was said and done, the version above produced a really well-balanced beverage that a drinking newbie can easily love and cocktail connoisseur can, at the very least, respect.
Ginger beer, by the way, is fairly similar to ginger ale, just a little bit, or a lot, heavier on the ginger, depending on the brand. We haven’t tried it, but real cheapskates may consider experimenting with plain old Vernors or Canada Dry. Ginger beer can be more expensive than some brands of actual beer.
We’re not ones to miss an opportunity to pimp one of our favorite bands from the Great White North, and even better, this clip comes with one of the hottest women ever. EVER. Seriously, who is that blonde in the ’60s mini? Guuuuuuuh. She makes us tingly.
And Neko Case (above), she’s not bad, either. Not bad at all.
As for the clip itself, our two-second internet research says that it is inspired by the 1965 film “Simon of the Desert,” where a man wanting to be closer to God climbs a pillar. That would certainly explain the girl’s clothes, not that they need any explaining. Did we mention the girl in this video is GORGEOUS?
Enough of our heavy breathing. Do some heavy breathing of your own. Happy Friday.
Summertime weather has kicked into high gear much earlier than usual in the greater Los Angeles area and it’s hot as we write these words at Drink of the Week Central. So, it’s as good a time as any to celebrate an appropriately cold and refreshing, and actually perfectly delightful, semi-
