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Trashwire’s new look and submission contest

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In 2002, Trashwire.com was just a little Tripod website where my friends and I posted weird news stories. In the past five years, we have grown to become an entertainment news and pop culture commentary site, added a blog, created YouTube videos, and covered everything from Lindsay Lohan to Leopard for Mac. The site has also had a few face lifts over the years and grown along with our knowledge of site-building.

On January 1st, 2008, we launched another re-design of the site. This new layout feels more like a blog and offers readers more access to stories and resources right from the front page. You can view the five most recent articles in a convenient sidebar, leave comments on stories, search the archives more efficiently, and bookmark your favorite articles using services like Digg, Newsvine, Facebook, and Del.ic.ious. Submitting stories to us is a lot easier too– just use our new Contact Us page.

Along with the new design, we will be bringing you more great content. Look for more reviews, celebrity news, and even some new videos.

To celebrate the new year and the new look for Trashwire, we will be holding a submission contest. Submit an article to Trashwire.com and if we publish it, you could win four free tickets to the Starz FilmCenter in Denver. Don’t live in Denver? You can still submit an article and get it published on Trashwire. Be sure to keep checking Trashwire.com to see if your article is chosen and to look out for other contests!

Thanks so much for checking out Trashwire.com!
-Alexis Gentry, Editor

Miss Universe 1929

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Starz Denver Film Festival Review:

Miss Universe 1929 is the story of Lisl Goldarbeiter, the Austrian Beauty Queen who won the title of Miss Universe in 1929. Told using archival footage from her husband Marci Tenczer, the story follows Goldarbeiter from her childhood through her eighties as she becomes a beauty queen, lives through World War I and II, and refuses to leave her beloved city of Vienna.

The story begins and ends with Tenczer telling filmmaker Peter Forgacs how much he loved Goldarbeiter and how he thought she was the most beautiful woman to ever walk the earth. While the story of Tenczer’s love for Golddarbeiter is romantic, the film fails to go into any real detail about the more interesting parts of Goldarbeiter’s life. This is a woman who lived through two World Wars and survived a concentration camp, yet those details are barely mentioned.

Playing like a well-made home movie, the film seems like it was made for people who already know her life story, so it offers little to viewers who might not be familiar with the details of her adventures. It seems like a story like Goldarbeiter’s deserves to be told in full