Hype and Glory
Hype and Glory is a 1990 memoir from William Goldman which details his experiences as a jury member for the main competition section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and Miss America Pageant. The book includes an interview with Clint Eastwood and a profile on Robert Redford.[1] Much of the book contains autobiographical material from Goldman, including accounts of his recent divorce.
Goldman later recalled:
I didn't know that I was going to write the damn thing. My wife had left me. I got the Cannes Film Festival invitation while we were still together and then she left and Rob Reiner said, 'I am on a personal campaign to get you accepted on the Miss America Contest'. I began keeping notes because I thought it was something that could be an interesting little book[2]... No, it was not my attempt to woo back my wife. She was wonderful and we're still friends and talk all the time. Nobody in my family ever said, 'God, how could you have trivialised your divorce or your marriage by writing that book?'[3]
Looking back on the book twenty years later Goldman reflected that Miss America contest no longer had the same appeal for people. "I'm stunned at the fact that the Miss America contest has disappeared as a piece of popular culture. It just shocks me."[4]
References
- Egan, Sean, William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller, Bear Manor Media 2014
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Works by William Goldman
- Tenderloin (1960)
- Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961)
- A Family Affair (1962)
- Misery (2012)
- The Temple of Gold (1957)
- Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958)
- Soldier in the Rain (1960)
- Boys and Girls Together (1964)
- No Way to Treat a Lady (1964)
- The Thing of It Is... (1967)
- Father's Day (1971)
- The Princess Bride (1973)
- Wigger (1974)
- Marathon Man (1974)
- Magic (1976)
- Tinsel (1979)
- Control (1982)
- The Silent Gondoliers (1983)
- The Color of Light (1984)
- Heat (1985)
- Brothers (1986)
- Masquerade (1965)
- Harper (1966)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Hot Rock (1972)
- The Stepford Wives (1975)
- The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
- Marathon Man (1976)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Magic (1978)
- Mr. Horn (1979, TV)
- Heat (1986)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Misery (1990)
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- Year of the Comet (1992)
- Chaplin (1992)
- Maverick (1994)
- The Chamber (1996)
- The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
- Absolute Power (1997)
- The General's Daughter (1999)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Dreamcatcher (2003)
- Wild Card (2015)
- The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969)
- Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983)
- Wait Till Next Year (1988)
- Hype and Glory (1990)
- Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000)
- The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (2000)
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