Beauty contests: as much as the feminists, the detractors and the TV executives tried, they never quite went away.
Nor did the scandals that accompanied them, which became as much a tradition as the contests themselves.
Misdemeanours celebrates the beauty queens that made the headlines: the sex, the drugs, the rock ÔnÕ roll stars, as well as the tragedies and heartaches that lay behind those glittering prizes.