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A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking (Newsweek), now the basis for the new season of TCMs hit podcast, The Plot Thickens

When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfes best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big. How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade. She shadowed the film from its early stages through the last of the eviscerating reviews, and met everyone from the actors to the technicians to the studio executives. Theyd all signed on for a blockbuster, but there was a sense of impending doom from the startheart-of-gold characters replaced Wolfes satiric creations; affable Tom Hanks was cast as the patrician heel; Melanie Griffith appeared mid-shoot with new, bigger breasts. With a keen eye and ear, Salamon shows us how the best of intentions turned into a legendary Hollywood debacle.

The Devils Candy joins John Gregory Dunnes The Studio, Steven Bachs Final Cut, and William Goldmans Adventures in the Screen Trade as a classic for anyone interested in the workings of Hollywood. With a new afterword profiling De Palma ten years after the movies devastating flop (and this books best-selling publication), Julie Salamon has created a riveting insiders portrait of an industry where art, talent, ego, and money combine and clash on a monumental scale.

Author: Julie Salamon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 05/30/2002
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.62w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780306811234
Language: English