Mobile, Alabama in popular culture of the Steven Seagal movie "Under Siege" (co-starring Tommy Lee Jones) was filmed on the , which is docked on Mobile Bay at Battleship Memorial Park and open to the public. In the movie "Driving Miss Daisy", Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy) has her driver Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) drive her to her brother's birthday party in Mobile. Much of the feature films "Love Liza" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman), and "Hometown Legend" (starring Terry O'Quinn), and the TV movie "Sacrifice" (starring Michael Madsen and Diane Farr) were shot in Mobile. Brian Bosworth's movie "Stone Cold" also featured scenes shot in Mobile.
Alternative Miss World open to both men and women, it was only in 1986 that the first woman won – Jenny Runacre as Miss National Geographic. The previous year's competition was won by a robot created by Bruce Lacey, Miss ROSA BOSOM (Radio Operated Simulated Actress Battery or Standby Operated Mains), which was first designed for a theatre production in 1966. The 1998 Alternative Miss World was won by 75-year-old Russian woman, Miss Pani Bronya, who remains its oldest winner. There has been a significant Russian presence since the 1990s, and the 2018 competition was won by the Russian performance artist Andrey Bartenev