The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood

An expose of the film industry focuses on the making of a movie that backfired at the box office to reveal the personalities of a new Hollywood community burning with the desire for instant success Read more From Publishers Weekly Wall Street Journal film critic Salamon systematically and incisively lays out the process that conceived of Bonfire as a socially relevant epic, then turned it into a successor to Heaven' s Gate.

Moving from pre- to post-production, she charts the ruinous situations--the stars high salaries and scheduling problems, the limited range of Bruce Willis, the conflicting messages from studio heads and more.