Hype and Glory (1990)

by William Goldman

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An account by the only person to have been a judge at both the Cannes film festival and the Miss America pageant. The result is a book which captures the glamour, serious business, celebrities, fiascos, successes, starlets, groupies, films, judges and judging at these media circuses.

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More Goldman, a record of the year he judged the Cannes film contest and the Miss America contest and got divorced. Has the peculiar effect of making the Miss America contest seem almost reasonable and the Cannes contest ridiculous.

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1990

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William Goldman

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Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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Cannes Film Festival (1988)

Miss America Pageant (1988)

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For my future. . . on the blithe assumption that it exists.

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An account by the only person to have been a judge at both the Cannes film festival and the Miss America pageant. The result is a book which captures the glamour, serious business, celebrities, fiascos, successes, starlets, groupies, films, judges and judging at these media circuses.

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