MOVIES - Sept. 5, 1988
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William Goldman, the screenwriter who wrote “Marathon Man” and who coined the flexible maxim “Nobody in Hollywood knows anything,” will be one of the preliminary judges for the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City on Saturday. Leonard Horn, the show’s executive producer, speaking through an NBC spokesman, said Goldman had expressed his strong interest in being one of the judges last year, but the judges had already been selected. “This year, they kept him in mind, they called him and he accepted.” Preliminary judges interview contestants before the Saturday night show, before the 51 contestants are pared down to 10 finalists.
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