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For years I've made do at the Cannes Film Festival with a regular pink pass, which at least is better than blue and way above yellow. A couple of days ago I found out that I've been slightly upgraded to a pink-with-a-yellow-pastille pass -- the first time this has ever happened despite years of persistent pleading. The highest-grade press pass is all white, but that's a privelege extended mostly (only?) to veteran dead-tree types. Has an online journo ever been granted one? I'm asking.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 10, 2008 at 5:57 AM
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MattyC
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What are the tangible differences between the various color grades?
Do you get more access now? A room with a view? Or is it just about the prestige of who has the coolest pass?
Posted by MattyC
at May 10, 2008 9:38 AM
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Adonis
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With great power comes great responsibility. Use it wisely, Wells.
Oh, and well-deserved.
Posted by Adonis
at May 10, 2008 11:13 AM
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Bocephus
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I imagine it's like the business card scene in American Psycho. Watch out, Jeff. Poland might see the yellow pastille and jealously murder you while listening to Phil Collins.
Posted by Bocephus
at May 10, 2008 12:11 PM
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berkguru
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I envy your life
Posted by berkguru
at May 10, 2008 1:46 PM
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Richard_Stone
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That pic is the same shot from your masthead?
Posted by Richard_Stone
at May 10, 2008 3:36 PM
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Richard_Stone
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Sorry for the previous inane comment, just noticed it was an old pass.
Posted by Richard_Stone
at May 10, 2008 3:39 PM
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gruver1
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Wells to MattyC: I think there is something a tiny cooler about having a pink-with-yellow-pastille pass, and therefore I am. But I do mean "a tiny bit" as in miniscule. All it boils down to is not having to wait as long to get into hot screenings -- you get to go in right behind the whites. Wells to Bocephus : For whatever reason, Poland doesn't ever go to Cannes....not his can of Coke, says it's over-rated, says it's too costly, doesn't like Europe...something. He Sundances, Torontos and Tellurides with the best of them, and he's been a lordly Grand Poobah of the Bermuda Film Festival for years. But Cannes...non!
Posted by gruver1
at May 10, 2008 4:00 PM
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The Pope
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Mr. Wells,
Do you really have to be so dismissive of those who are further up the food chain than you. Referring to critics with the highest-grade press passes as "veteran dead-tree types" is laughably infantile. Why can't you just admit that there are critics out there who are more respected, more widely read and write better? Next thing you'll be telling us you're the only one on the Croisette with a laminated bucket and spade.
Posted by The Pope
at May 10, 2008 6:17 PM
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EDouglas
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"Watch out, Jeff. Poland might see the yellow pastille and jealously murder you while listening to Phil Collins."
Nikki Finke will have the exclusive scoop on that.
Posted by EDouglas
at May 11, 2008 7:23 AM
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nemo
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What the hell is a pastille anyway?
I looked it up just now. The yellow pastille on the card must be definition 2: "lozenge". Which is pretty funny when you think about. The higher status card has a yellow cough drop on it.
Definition 1 for pastille is even funnier: "a small mass of aromatic paste for fumigating or scenting the air of a room." Those French!
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at May 11, 2008 9:18 AM
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