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Mistake two: the ideal panel for literary prizes is a group of harmless but well-read drudges who are happy with modest honorariums and the free coffee and doughnuts served at meetings. The Turner people made the blunder of assuming that prestigious judges would confer glitter on the new awards. They assembled, at $10,000 a pop, a blue-ribbon panel including not only Styron, Matthiessen and Bradbury but Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Fuentes as well...
...POWER AND THE GLITTER by Ronald Brownstein...
Ronald Brownstein's The Power and the Glitter is a history of the relationship between Hollywood and Washington. But Brownstein does not really mine the mythological and sociological bond between the two cities. Instead, he recounts the times that Hollywood and Washington have intersected on affairs of state and of the heart. His research suggests that while Washington occasionally flirts with Hollywood, Hollywood has long been an unrequited suitor in the corridors of power. In the end Brownstein's book is less a history of the connection between Washington politics and Hollywood dazzle than a diligent and readable survey...
Megarich financier Kirk Kerkorian knows how to make a fortune in the glitter mills of Las Vegas and Los Angeles, but can he do it in gritty Detroit? Last week Chrysler said the Beverly Hills investor had accumulated more than 9% of the troubled automaker's stock at an estimated cost of $250 million. Kerkorian met with Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca earlier this month and professed support for the company's management but refused to sign a "standstill" agreement to stop increasing his stake, a Chrysler spokesman disclosed. Girding for a possible takeover bid, Chrysler has strengthened its poison-pill...
...lost in the glitter of Wriede's performance was Harvard's 911 points, which far outdistanced second-place North Carolina State (669) and third-place Pittsburgh (547). Pitt placed third behind Princeton and the Crimson at last year's Easterns championships...