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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe.The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.
Tom Wolfe's character Tommy Killian in The Bonfire of the Vanities is based on Hayes. Hayes is often regularly featured on different radio stations, in both Ireland and the USA. Most recently, Hayes was portrayed as a character in the Broadway hit, Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks.
To mark the 30th anniversary of "The Bonfire of the Vanities," here are some eyebrow-raising making-of anecdotes from "The Devil’s Candy," from a charged audition between Hanks and a young Uma ...
Tom Wolfe, whose novels—including A Man in Full—explore an American obsession with money, power, race, and sex.An adaptation of Man premieres May 2 on Netflix. David Corio - Getty Images
A budding child star at the time, Dunst followed Interview with the Vampire with small roles in Woody Allen's New York Stories (1989) and Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). "I ...
During production on The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian De Palma toyed around with the idea of a suspense movie set on a playground. He was concerned however, that returning to the suspense genre was dangerous for him as it could be regarded as a step backward in his career. [3]
Fred C. Caruso is an American film producer known for his work on such films as Network and Blue Velvet. [1]His contributions as a producer for the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities with director Brian De Palma were detailed in Julie Salamon's 1991 non-fiction book The Devil's Candy.