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The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
by Julie Salamon
I love books about making movies, and The Devil's Candy is a fantastic example.
Start with a best-selling book. Mix in some studio execs with one eye on the budget and the other on their own careers, a director trying to break away from the suspense genre, some big-name stars who may or may not be right for the parts in which they've been cast, and a whole gaggle of anonymous, ambitious underlings and hangers-on, and you have a recipe for either a huge success or a humiliating failure.
Of course, we live in this book's future, and we know which one "The Bonfire Of The Vanities" turned out to be. But this book makes it seem like an unforgettable ride. Author Julie Salamon had complete and almost unprecedented access to the cast and crew for what everyone thought would be a blockbuster movie. Then the budget began to grow, the pool of available locations began to shrink, and an almost siegelike mentality set in among the crew as executives were barred from the set and phone calls were pointedly not returned.
Highly recommended if you love a good Hollywood story. Try to get a later edition, which contains expanded information; the earlier version is subtitled "The Bonfire Of The Vanities Goes To Hollywood" rather than "The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco." I read an earlier edition but will definitely seek out a newer one very soon.
Start with a best-selling book. Mix in some studio execs with one eye on the budget and the other on their own careers, a director trying to break away from the suspense genre, some big-name stars who may or may not be right for the parts in which they've been cast, and a whole gaggle of anonymous, ambitious underlings and hangers-on, and you have a recipe for either a huge success or a humiliating failure.
Of course, we live in this book's future, and we know which one "The Bonfire Of The Vanities" turned out to be. But this book makes it seem like an unforgettable ride. Author Julie Salamon had complete and almost unprecedented access to the cast and crew for what everyone thought would be a blockbuster movie. Then the budget began to grow, the pool of available locations began to shrink, and an almost siegelike mentality set in among the crew as executives were barred from the set and phone calls were pointedly not returned.
Highly recommended if you love a good Hollywood story. Try to get a later edition, which contains expanded information; the earlier version is subtitled "The Bonfire Of The Vanities Goes To Hollywood" rather than "The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco." I read an earlier edition but will definitely seek out a newer one very soon.