Word: palmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accident in slo-mo close-up. In The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), she tracks all the bollixed decisions that made the bosses at Warner Bros. wonder why they green-lighted Bonfire and vetoed Home Alone, and director Brian De Palma feel like an Iraqi army general. "He couldn't imagine," Salamon writes, "what it would be like to go through all this for a bad movie...
...Bonfire had its crape custom tailored. Consider the casting, on both sides of the screen. Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance...
...book could stand some shrinkage too -- and some expansion at both ends. Because the fatal decisions were made at the hiring stage, Salamon gets the main story secondhand. Nor does she offer a critique of Bonfire. Does she think it deserved its bad rep? Was De Palma a victim? Or are grosses the only reviews that count...
...California design shops do seem blessedly free of the factory-like organization that prevails in Detroit and elsewhere. Designer Alberto Palma, 27, interned at General Motors in Detroit before coming to work for Toyota in Newport Beach. He found the GM experience "kind of stuffy. Everyone was divided into units for different aspects of design. Here we can sit down and talk about a project from ground up." Jack Stavana, Mazda's director of product planning and research who masterminded the marketing of the Miata, agrees. "Frankly," says Stavana, who worked for Chrysler for five years, "I needed...
...countryside the Sandinistas grabbed ranches and farms. Wilfredo Lopez Palma, an assembly deputy, took 2,650 acres in the department of Rivas. Luis Felipe Perez, the Sandinista mayor of the city of Leon, acquired a 600-acre farm. Mario Hurtado Jimenez, who headed the state Corporation of Aviculture, leased a chicken farm to himself on easy-to-pay terms. His rent: 500 dozen eggs a month...