Carson Graham

crowns its king

Layne
Christensen

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JUDGING FROM the roar
from the crowds gathered in
Carson Graham secondary’s
gymnasium a fortnight ago,
you’d think the Eagles had
just won the provincial bas-
ketball championships.

Instead, the occasion turned out
to be the crowning of the first-ever
Mr. Carson Graham.

Fifteen of the graduating class’
most talented; fashionable and dar-
ing young men competed for the
honor amidst a frenzied mass of
mostly screaming, mostly female
classmates, with the odd parent,

_ teacher and.talent scout thrown in.
ip The Smen of Carson Graham” -
. made their first rurn down the nun- -
way in casualwear from their own,
closets and-from The Gap, Aritzia®
*. and Hill's of Kerrisdale.. "=
The’ next ‘Category was beach-

‘ wear, with emcee and CG counsel-..

lor Rob Watson setting the tone by
introducing “hunk of meat No.1".

“(Mare Andrews), in jams and aT-
-shist-The not-so-bare looks to fol- - «.
low ranged from denim cutoffs toa»

wetsuit, and from water wings.

(Jonathon “Kramer” Mentzos) to: *

bulging muscles (Andre Ver). .
Following that; the contestants

were each given the stage to show- ©

case their hidden talents... °
These ranged from rollerblade
. juggling (Derek Archer) to cheer-
Jeading (Arimo Evans) and from
an eloquent poetry reading of -
Robert Service’s Premonition ,

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(Arto Ross) to a frenetic air-guitar
performance of AC/DC's You
Shook Me (Bruce Strebinger).

Chris Breikss got some laughs
with his stand-up comedy routine
as did Mentzos, alias Captain
Merry Stuebing, with his moving
rendition of the theme from Love
Boat. .

‘Dino Escutin‘s outstanding
Michael Jackson impersonation
should ensure he has no shortage of
dance partners at grad. Angus
Fergusson's Highland Fling rope-
jumping might not prove as popular
beneath the glitter ball.

But what really brought down

the house was Arlen Hansen's

cover of the Boyz ll Men hit End of
the Road.

His flawless performance had at
least one starry-eyed young fan
reduced to tears of lustful admira-
tion and s dozen members of the
as-yet-te-be-formed Arlen Hansen
Fan Club rushing the stage to pep-
per him with roses and wistful air-
borne kisses.

Tuxedos and tails from Classy

‘Formal Wear were donned next for

judging of the second-to-last cate-
gory.

The classic penguin suii showed
up on more than one guy (Ross
Gold, Evans), tails were seen on
others (Mike Danks looked dapper

in grey), and the more adventurous —

contestants exhibited their fashion
sense through their choice of acces-

:, Sories: turquoise cummerbund and

bow tie (Ezra Tsamkiranis),

. bronze brocade vest (Escutin),

white tie and silk scarf (Ress).

If. there were an award for most
innovative variation on formal
wear it would most certainly go to
Dain Currie, whose grey brocade
vest was tucked into his sus-. .*

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MR. CARSON Graham Arlen Hansen (centze) i is surrounded by his runners-up (from lett to right)
Angus Fergusson, Jonathon Mentzos, Arlo Ross and Dine Escutin.

pendered tuxedo pants.

The final category. the sudden-
death question-and-answer period,
allowed the : judges to gauge the
contestants” future as spokesmod-
els.

In response to the question
“Which celebrity has influenced
you the most?,” hockey player

_ Archer’s spokesmodei-perfect -
_ response was “Jack Nicklaus ...

um, er, ] mean ... Nicholson.”
When asked if he thought vio-
lence on TV had influenced the

younger generation, track-and-field
star Breikss swiftly pointed the fin-”

ger at Elmer Fudd and Wiley

Coyote for committing “senseless
acts of violence.”

Thespian Fergusson, when
asked to choose three adjectives to
describe himself, chose “energetic,
aggressive and green.” Green?

Mentzos, whose goals include
graduating from the Barbazon
School of Modelling and “pursuing,
a lucrative career as a hand model,”
moved the audience with his sou!-
ful solution to the Bosnia-Croatia
conflict: “I believe the children are
our future. Teach them well and let
them lead the way...”

In the end, after much delibera-
tion, the judges chose Hansen as

Mr. Carson Graham, with Ross, - -~
Mentzos, Fergusson and Escutin -
receiving runners-up honors. «:-

The event raised $1,000 towards °.
the Class of '94’s graduation'cele-..
brations and. much of: the ‘credit “
goes to event coordinator Claudia
Cusano and her hard-working v vo!
unteers, :

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