When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe\'s best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big.
She shadowed the film from its early stages through the last of the eviscerating reviews, and met everyone from the actors to the technicians to the studio executiv.
How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade.
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe\'s best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big
