(This may be one of my worst/most confessional metaphors ever.) It is 90-minutes of timeless nostalgia, a little funky and a lot soothing with a smidge of regret that whatever you thought you would be doing years later and however you thought you’d be changing the world just didn’t quite happen. Her show is like a comfortably chunky, still stylish, but totally retro sweater in the back of your closet. So, when I got a panicky email from Ticketmaster last week, breathlessly urging me to “buy one-get one free” of her still copiously available tickets for Sunday’s performance at Motor City Casino’s “Sound Board” night club, you betcha I snapped up two. Heck, she even plays Alan Cumming’s love interest now on The Good Wife – that’s a pair of celebrities who unexpectedly crawled from our nation’s puritanically judgmental margins to stand triumphant in the hazy comfort-glare of middle-America’s beloved boob tube. Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives), and she has become, more or less, America’s b-list sweetheart. She’s had starring roles on just about every ABC dramedy of the past 15 years (e.g. Yet, she was reinstated this year because even the “Miss America” people realized that, in this day and age of Gaga and Miley and … Trump, that maybe zapping the title of one of the few contestants to actually have a viable career (Grammy/Tony-nominations, Top 40 hit songs, a freaking Disney theme) was kinda dumb? Yet, can she still be considered “Miss America” when she was de-crowned after her Penthouse pictorial scandal mid-way through her reign? One of the most (only?) successful (post-pageant winners) of “Miss America” … Lee Meriwether notwithstanding? Vanessa Williams is an interesting figure in pop culture.

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