Beauty School”Roger & Me” gets a special...

Beauty School

“Roger & Me” gets a special release later this month--at an “orientation session” for Miss USA Pageant contestants.

Well, not the entire documentary, which examines the impact of General Motors’ plant closing in Flint, Mich. Just the section in which film maker Michael Moore catches then-Miss Michigan/Miss America, Kay Lani Raye Rafko, off guard during a Flint parade. In the segment, she gives memorably vacuous responses. (When asked how she feels about Flint’s severe unemployment situation, Rafko declares, “I’m all for employment.”)

Sara Meza, p.r. director for Madison Square Garden Television Productions, which produces the Miss USA Pageant (it airs live from Wichita March 2 on CBS), included the Rafko segment in a training reel for this year’s 51 competitors.

“I like them to be prepared, to know what to expect (from interviewers),” Meza tells us. “The best way is to show them examples.”

The reel will also include clips from “A Current Affair” and “48 Hours,” in which beauty queens from other pageants come off better than Rafko.

“It really hits the nail on the head,” Meza says of the “Roger & Me” footage. “People expect those (lightweight) responses from a beauty queen.”

She’s grooming this year’s Miss USA hopefuls for press questions “that might require a little more thought.”

Will Moore be invited?

“If he’s on our mailing list of 1,800 (credentialled) press people and he’d like to attend, we’d be more than happy to have him.”