Hype and Glory by William Goldman
This is 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. William Goldman is the author of Marathon Man and also wrote the screen plays for Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Adventures in the Screentrade.