Word: salamon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Julie Salamon, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, got to watch the 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...
...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...