The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco - Couverture souple

Salamon, Julie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306811235 ISBN 13 : 9780306811234

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Salamon Julie

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking."--Newsweek

When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's 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. 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. With a new afterword profiling De Palma ten years after the movie's devastating flop (and this book's best-selling publication), Julie Salamon has created a riveting insider's portrait of an industry where art, talent, ego, and money combine and clash on a monumental scale.
"Delightful. The Devil's Candy is quite simply the most telling examination of moviemaking since Lillian Ross's [Picture]. . . . One must be thankful to the filmmakers for producing such a spectacle, if only so that this book could be written."--Graydon Carter, Vogue

Biographie de l'auteur :

Julie Salamon is a critic for the New York Times and the author of five books. She lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0306811235
• ISBN 13: 9780306811234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464