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Hype and Glory
ISBN: 9780394584324
定价: 159.60
内容简介
Hype and Glory: magical words that seem,
these days, to make the world go round--at
least the glittering worlds of the Cannes Film
Festival and the Miss America Pageant.
Last year, William Goldman, best-selling
author of such novels as Marathon Man and
Magic and top screenwriter for such films as
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The
Princess Bride, was the first and only person
ever to be a judge at both Cannes and Miss
America. The result is a book that is hilarious,
gossipy, startling, and as inside as any true
account could be of the two most amazing
competitions around the 9lobe.
Hype and Glory exquisitely captures the
glamour, the serious business, the celebrities,
the fiascos, the successes, the starlets, the
groupies, the films, the judges and the judging
at Cannes, the biggest annual media event in
the world. From Arnold Schwarzenegger to
Robert Redford, from topless sunbathing
around the pool at the famed Majestic Hotel to
sneaking into the most chic parties, from
trying to convince Nastassja Kinski to vote for
Clint Eastwood as Best Director to tryin9 to
judge a film while wearing headphones from
which an English voice is saying things like "Oh
look, Onimaru in his anger has cut off the
warrior's arm--see the arm is flying through
the air"--it's all here. Not since Goldman's own
classic Adventures in the Screen Trade has the
film business been as fascinating, as terrifying,
and as entertaining.
From the south of France in May, Goldman
moves to Atlantic City in September, where he
reveals all about the world's most legendary
beauty contest. Want to know two things
the judges are told are more important
than beauty? (There are seven things more
important, by the way.) Try "energy" and
"communication."
What is the best advice the pageant gives
judges on how to grade musicians in the talent
competition? "Consider the contestant's ability
to play the instrument in tune." What was
the most useful hobby listed by a contestant in
last year's pageant? How about "making
refrigerator magnets."
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