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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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MattyC says ...

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?

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Adonis says ...

With great power comes great responsibility. Use it wisely, Wells.

Oh, and well-deserved.

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Bocephus says ...

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.

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berkguru says ...

I envy your life

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Richard_Stone says ...

That pic is the same shot from your masthead?

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Richard_Stone says ...

Sorry for the previous inane comment, just noticed it was an old pass.

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gruver1 says ...

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!

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The Pope says ...

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.

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EDouglas says ...

"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.

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nemo says ...

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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