The Devils Candy, Julie Salamon
The Devils Candy, Julie Salamon
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The Devil's Candy
The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco

Author: Julie Salamon

Narrator: Julie Salamon

Unabridged: 18 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's bestselling 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. They'd all signed on for a blockbuster, but there was a sense of impending doom from the start—heart-of-gold characters replaced Wolfe's 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 Devil's Candy joins John Gregory Dunne's The Studio, Steven Bach's Final Cut, and William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade as a classic for anyone interested in the workings of Hollywood.

About Julie Salamon

Julie Salamon was a film critic and reporter for the Wall Street Journal for sixteen years before becoming a television critic for the New York Times. She is the author of The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, White Lies, The Net of Dreams, and the New York Times bestseller The Christmas Tree.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 21, 2023

Julie Salamon - from her site Salamon tells the tale of the making of Tom Wolfe's satiric masterpiece Bonfire of the Vanities into a film. It provides an incredibly detailed view of diverse aspects of movie-making, any of which could, if done wrong, turn a good product into a bad one. She notes the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 05, 2020

A brilliant, exhaustive and totally exhausting account of how a big budget Hollywood movie gets conceived and scripted and cast and filmed without anyone involved having the faintest notion that what they are creating is one of the famous worst movies ever. Rolling Stone : On film, Bonfire achieves......more

Goodreads review by Sean on April 17, 2013

Step 1. Read Bonfire of the Vanities. Step 2. Watch Bonfire of the Vanities. Step 3. Read The Devil's Candy (by far the most rewarding and enjoyable of the three steps).......more

Goodreads review by Barry on August 22, 2024

An unbelievably detailed post-mortem of a film that flopped so bad that even in our current era of reappraisal, nobody has a good thing to say about it. It's quite easy to argue that The Devil's Candy is the best thing to come out of Brian De Palma's disastrous attempt at adapting Tom Wolfe's The Bo......more

Goodreads review by Alexa on November 08, 2021

Anatomy of a flop from start to finish. Read if you're fascinated by Hollywood, movie making, and enjoy watching train wrecks in slow motion. But seriously: such a fascinating read! I had never seen Bonfire of the Vanities, but heard this book mentioned on YouTube and thought I'd check it out. Was a......more

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