Tracing the awards from their founding by Louis B. Mayer in 1928 to the present, Holden shows the evolution of the ceremony from a five-minute pat on the back to a six-week orgy of self-congratulation. "Marvelously entertaining, but also a serious and comprehensive inquiry".--Publishers Weekly. Photos.
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Tracing the awards from their founding by Louis B. Mayer in 1928 to the present, Holden shows the evolution of the ceremony from a five-minute pat on the back to a six-week orgy of self-congratulation. "Marvelously entertaining, but also a serious and comprehensive inquiry".--Publishers Weekly. Photos.
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Holden, Anthony., A Plume Book (Penguin Group), 1994, c1993, 3rd printing, soft cover, vg++, 672 pp with appendices, source notes, bibliography & index, extensive B&W photographic illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0452271312, "Every year Hollywood plunges into one of the greatest orgies of self-congratulation known to humankind: the Academy Awards"
