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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 17 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Julie Salamon. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Wolfe, Tom -- Film and video adaptations.
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Bonfire of the vanities (Motion picture)
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Salamon, Julie.
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hoopla digital.
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| Cover Title |
Devil's candy : the anatomy of a Hollywood fiasco |
| ISBN |
9781666115437 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666115436 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14102169 |
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