Jamie Dukehart-Conti doesn’t really think her best friend is a diamondbut that’s her song, and she’s sticking to it.
Jamie is Miss Colorado, and she’s in Las Vegas ready to compete for the title of Miss America on Saturday night (6 p.m. on TLC).
Her talent? Dancing to “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
“I’m excited about it,” she tells me on the horn from Vegas. “But no, I don’t believe that. Your best friends are people who love you on your good days and on your bad days.”
The 23-year-old is a grad of Ralston Valley High in Arvada and Colorado State University, where she studied to become a teacher.
As Miss Colorado, she’s living at home with her parents, and she says she doesn’t have time for a boyfriend. So there. She makes plenty of appearances and stops by Children’s Hospital. Her platform is “Investing in Miracles; Changing Lives with Change.” And although she didn’t exactly say so, I bet she wants world peace.
Lotsa Ted, not much Mike.
Disgraced Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard is getting a lot of face time these days. The HBO doc “The Trials of Ted Haggard” debuts Jan. 29. And Oprah just taped a show with Haggard set to air next week.
But Denver masseur, bodybuilder and former male prostitute Mike Jones, who brought down Haggard, isn’t getting good billing, he says. He appears in the doc, but he wasn’t asked to be on “Oprah.”
“The studio was in contact with me but decided that I was not RELEVANT to the story now,” he wrote me.
He did write a letter to Haggard that was to be read on “Oprah.” You can read it in its entirety at .
It ends: “My only sadness is that you have decided to make your comeback so publicly that (it) will open old wounds and new ones. My best to you and your family.”
In another e-mail to me, Jones wrote, “My prediction is that by February 1st, even my harshest critics will say it is a good thing Mike Jones said something.”
Oscar chase.
The Oscar nominations are announced this morning — so it’s time to get ready for the Denver Starz Film Society Party With Oscar.
It’ll be its 18th outing when film nuts gather Feb. 22 at Starz FilmCenter to celebrate the celluloid.
This year’s theme is rock ‘n’ roll — with a band and dancing along with viewing.
“And of course we’re all going to root for ‘Slumdog (Millionaire),’ ” said film fester Britta Erickson. “It was our Big Night movie at the festival.”
Look for the ballot contest — first prize is a deluxe trip to the Los Angeles Film Festival. And, of course, Bill Clarke will come out of retirement to emcee, as he always does.
City spirit.
Local indy comic Ben Kronberg was on “Last Call With Carson Daly” on Tuesday night. . . . Look for a mob to show up at Sullivan’s 6 tonight for Girls Night Out. . . . DeVotchKa’s 2009 tour includes Feb 13 at the Paramount Theatre. . . . Sightem: LeAnn Rimes at the Westin Riverfront in Avon. . . . Sez who: “No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.” John Ruskin (1819-1900, English author and critic)
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