dream great dreams

Mention child beauty pageants and JonBenet's name is usually not far behind--


A world stage for perfect little entrants
by Hal Boedeker Sentinel Television Critic
March 11, 2009

"...Pageant founder Michael Galanes sees it as a hopeful, unbiased answer to Little Miss Sunshine and clips of JonBenet Ramsey as a pageant contestant. WE promotes the show with the line "judge for yourself."...

..."WE tv is providing a bright, clean documentary where the viewer can see the relevance of pageants and girls' relations with moms," says Galanes, who established the Little Miss and America's Perfect pageants. "The message is dream great dreams, and each little girl is perfect in her own right."

"At 4, could you stand on a stage and answer questions and perform a skill?" he asks. "These little girls are being exposed to a bright world. I'm proud to be facilitator of that world."He takes that role very seriously. "I consider all the little girls my children," he says. "One of my first winners became an attorney."Tonight's episode is the fourth of six. Will there be a Little Miss Perfect II?...?