Top screenwriter and novelist William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade was a trade paperback hit after a moderately successful hardcover run. Hype and Glory--his critically praised, controversial insider's look at both Cannes and the Miss America Pageant--promises to be an even more potent seller.
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Goldman was a judge at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1989 and helped choose Miss America in September that same year. "With a witty storyteller's talents, he here describes these heady experiences," said PW . "His ruthlessly candid insider's report . . . is bound to incense the contestants and promoters."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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William Goldman has been writing books and movies for more than forty years. He has won two Academy Awards (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men), and three Lifetime Achievement Awards in screenwriting.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
The writing in HYPE AND GLORY is sloppy beyond belief at times, but most of the anecdotes are amusing enough to keep you breezily turning the pages. For reading around the back yard this summer, this book should do the trick.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Goldman relates some funny anedotes in this book. That's mainly what it is, a bunch of anecdotes. He's ridiculously dramatic when relating his personal life, and his bleeding-heart-liberal moments are almost laughable in their (unintended) schmaltziness. And he is so opinionated about films, that, if you've seen the ones he's talking about, may scratch your head about the certaintly of his wrong-headed opinions. Despite those flaws, the book is very entertaining. And it inspired me to rent the movie he voted for the Cannes jury prize award (I won't say which one and give the surprise away), which, indeed, is a great film.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
The writing in HYPE AND GLORY is sloppy beyond belief at times, but most of the anecdotes are amusing enough to keep you breezily turning the pages. For reading around the back yard this summer, this book should do the trick.
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