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The Devil's Candy: The ''Bonfire of the Vanities'' Goes to Hollywood (1991)

Julie Salamon
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Nov 27, 1992
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
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Details Writer: Julie Salamon; Genres: Media and Journalism, Movies, Nonfiction; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

The question of why good people make bad movies has never been answered more persuasively than in Julie Salamon's The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, an exquisitely detailed acccount of the making of The Bonfire of the Vanities. A
Originally posted Nov 27, 1992 Published in issue #146 Nov 27, 1992 Order article reprints
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