"Who wrote the 1997 novel ""The Bonfire of the Vanities""?"
"a revised title, ""The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco"", and further material by Salamon (in which she describes Bruce Willis's negative reaction to the book). The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film, which was a critical and commercial flop, stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The"
"with many of the traders who later founded the notorious hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.) Wolfe researched and revised for two years. ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" appeared in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists and earning praise from much of the literary establishment on which Wolfe had long heaped scorn. The story centers on Sherman McCoy, a successful New York City bond trader. His $3 million Park Avenue co-op, combined with his aristocratic wife's extravagances and other expenses required to keep up appearances are depleting his great income, or as Sherman"
"retirement from the bench in 1998. Immortalized in ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" as judge Myron Kovitsky, a character based on Roberts, he was one of the few sympathetic characters in the book, one who would not be swayed by prosecutors or the press. Wolfe dedicated the book to Roberts and one of his assistants, calling Roberts ""one of the great figures in New York"" and considered him ""the greatest single figure I've run into"". In the 1990 film adaptation of the book starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith, the role of the judge was renamed to Leonard"
"and ""The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"". In 1979, he published the influential book ""The Right Stuff"" about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. Wolfe was born on March 2, 1930, in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Helen Perkins Hughes Wolfe, a garden designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Sr.,"
"Wolfe researched and revised for two years, and his ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" was published in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists and earning praise from the very literary establishment on which Wolfe had long heaped scorn. Because of the success of Wolfe's first novel, there was widespread interest in his second. This novel took him more than 11 years to complete; ""A Man in Full"" was published in 1998. The book's reception was not universally favorable, though it received glowing reviews in ""Time"", ""Newsweek"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", and elsewhere."
"bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books. It has often been called the quintessential novel of the 1980s. The title is a reference to the historical Bonfire of the Vanities, which happened in 1497 in Florence, Italy, when the city was under the rule of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola, who ordered the burning of objects that church authorities considered sinful, such as cosmetics, mirrors, books and art. Wolfe intended his novel to capture the essence of New York City in the 1980s. Wall Street in the 1980s was newly resurgent after most of the"
"Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"". New York publicist Mortimer Matz recommends an old raincoat. In addition to concealing the handcuffs, he says, it is not a problem when the garment inevitably gets smudged by fingerprint ink remaining on the defendant's hands. New York Mafia boss John Gotti wore the expensive custom-tailored suits that earned him his ""Dapper Don"" nickname during perp walks, in contrast to the sweatpants and jackets seen among other contemporary organized-crime figures. Susan McDougal, subjected to a brief perp walk in a miniskirt, leg irons and a waist chain as she was taken"
"and table tops, paper products, glassware, and luggage. Her late friend, Bill Blass, said of her “She is the ultimate tastemaker.” Roehm has published at least ten books on topics such as gardening, interior decorating, gift wrapping, flower arranging, and party planning. Roehm's first marriage was to German chemical heir, Axel Roehm. Their marriage lasted about a year. She later married Henry Kravis in 1985, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1993. The home decorated for the couple by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade was parodied in the 1990 movie ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"". In the 1980s, Roehm"
"subjects of the stories and recording minute details of everyday routine. In his novel, ""Bonfire of the Vanities"", Wolfe used many of the writing techniques in his journalism, but this time to tell what Wolfe called a ""fictional novel"" (though novel traditionally denotes fiction and is hence redundant, Wolfe's ""New Journalism"" was sometimes described as non-fiction novels). In addition, Wolfe set out in ""Bonfire"" to capture the spirit of New York City in the 1980s. The book was a commercial success, becoming a New York Times Bestseller and earning critical praise. In his ""Harper's"" essay, Wolfe (at the time a"
"even my Baccarat perfume bottles?"" He never used white again. From 1960 the firm of Denning & Fourcade would become known for colorful extravagance and over the top opulence. Clients beginning with Michel David-Weill; the Ogden Phipps family, for whom they did fifteen houses; Henry Kravis, whose home, and their decorating, was parodied in the 1990 movie ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" with Tom Hanks; Charles and Jayne Wrightsman; Henry Kissinger; Diana Ross; Oscar de la Renta both in Manhattan and Connecticut; Beatriz and Antenor Patiño, the Bolivian tin magnate and Jean Vanderbilt, to name only a few, began to"
"to dedicating his 1987 novel ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" to Hayes, Wolfe has acknowledged that he based the lawyer character Tommy Killian on him. Andy Warhol had met the lawyer briefly in the fall of 1980 and wrote in his diary: Defense lawyer named Ed Hayes who looked like he was from Laverne and Shirley, like a plant that people invite to parties to wear funny clothes and jump around and make things ‘kooky.’ Sort of forties clothes, really crew cut, about twenty-nine. He said, ‘I can get ya outta anything.’ In the 1990 American film classic Goodfellas, Hayes"
"The Moon and the Bonfires The Moon and the Bonfires is an English translation of the novel La Luna e i Falò, by the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese. The book was written in Italian in 1949. It is considered Pavese's best novel. The first English language translation was undertaken by L. Sinclair in 1952. A more recent translation by R.W. Flint, published in 2002, uses the arguably more correct translation of ""The Moon and the Bonfires"", taking account of the use of the plural ""i Falò"" in the original Italian title. The novel is set in the small"
"he had not ""seen anything that looked like this since London after the Blitz"". The 1987 novel ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", by the American writer Tom Wolfe, presented the South Bronx as a nightmare world, not to be entered by middle or upper-class whites. Beginning in the late 1980s, parts of the South Bronx started to experience urban renewal with rehabilitated and brand new residential structures, including both subsidized multifamily townhomes and apartment buildings. The Bright Temple A.M.E. Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Over 1 billion US dollars were spent on rebuilding"
"Bonfire of the vanities A bonfire of the vanities () is a burning of objects condemned by authorities as occasions of sin. The phrase usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy, on the Shrove Tuesday festival. For a first-hand account of the bonfire of the vanities that occurred in Florence, Italy in 1497, see Francesco Guicciardini's ""The History of Florence."" The focus of this destruction was nominally on objects that might tempt one to"
"Liar's Poker Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's """", and the fictional ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" by Tom Wolfe. The book captures an important period in the history of Wall Street. Two important figures in that history feature prominently in the text, the head of Salomon Brothers' mortgage department Lewis Ranieri and the firm's CEO"
"to ""Nothing but Trouble"". On December 20, Dan Aykroyd stated in a press release that he would always think of the film as ""Valkenvania"". A promotional illustration by Boris Vallejo was commissioned in 1991. The film's release was delayed to recut the film for a PG-13 rating, removing the film's over the top violence, and the studio rescheduled ""Bonfire of the Vanities"" to the Christmas 1990 release date originally held by ""Nothing but Trouble"". The film was released on February 15, 1991. According to Box Office Mojo, the film opened at #8 in 1,671 theaters, grossing $3,966,240 opening weekend. The"
"Henrietta Branford Henrietta Diana Primrose Longstaff Branford(12 January 1946 – 23 April 1999) was an English author of children's books. Her greatest success was ""Fire, Bed and Bone"" (1997), a historical novel set during the English peasants' revolt of 1381. For that she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a highly commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Branford was born in India, and raised in an isolated part of New"
"their fathers. Eddie Hayes (lawyer) Edward Walter Hayes is an American lawyer, journalist, and memoirist. He is known for his role in settling the estate of Andy Warhol and representing several organized crime figures. 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. Hayes was born in New York City in the neighborhood of Sunnyside, Queens, and grew up for a period"
"1985, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1993. The home decorated for the couple by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade was parodied in the 1990 movie ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"". Kravis is currently married to a prominent Canadian economist, and former columnist and TV personality in Canada, Marie-Josée Drouin. She sits on the boards of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Robin Hood Foundation, and is the president of the Museum of Modern Art board of directors. Kravis mainly lives in New York City and has a seasonal residence in Palm Beach, Florida; he also owns homes in"
"currently writing a script for Maven Pictures about the life of Clementine Churchill. She is also developing a series of Tom Wolfe's classic book, ""Bonfire of the Vanities"" with Chuck Lorre and Warner Brothers TV. Nagle's paternal descent is Irish. Nagle is named after her great aunt, modern dance pioneer Margaret Newell H'Doubler. Nagle, who has a brother with a brain injury from a car accident, is actively involved in furthering rights and visibility for people with disabilities and is on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of Southern California. Nagle recently received the Media Access Award from the Writers"
"magazines shifted their focus from entertainment to information and news. However, some serialization of novels in periodicals continued, with mixed success. The first several books in the ""Tales of the City"" series by Armistead Maupin appeared from 1978 as regular installments in San Francisco newspapers. Similar serial novels ran in other city newspapers, such as ""The Serial"" (1976; Marin County), ""Tangled Lives"" (Boston), ""Bagtime"" (Chicago), and ""Federal Triangle"" (Washington, D.C.). Starting in 1984, Tom Wolfe's ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", about contemporary New York City, ran in 27 parts in ""Rolling Stone"", partially inspired by the model of Dickens. The"
"Global Markets. Two members of the Salomon Brothers' bond arbitrage, John Meriwether and Myron Scholes, later became a founder and a consultant for Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998. The firm's top bond traders called themselves ""Big Swinging Dicks,"" and were the inspiration for the book ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", by Tom Wolfe. Salomon Brothers' success and decline in the 1980s is documented in Michael Lewis' 1989 book, ""Liar's Poker"". Lewis went through Salomon's training program and then became a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in London. The last years of Salomon Brothers, culminating in"
"Rene Steinke Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: ""The Fires"" (1999), ""Holy Skirts"" (2005), and ""Friendswood"" (2014). ""Holy Skirts"", a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in ""The New York Times"", ""Vogue"", """", ""Bookforum"", and elsewhere. Steinke holds a BA from Valparaiso University, an MFA from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fairleigh"
"The Great Fire (novel) The Great Fire (2003) is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and a Miles Franklin literary award (2004). The novel was Hazzard's first since ""The Transit of Venus"", published in 1980. The novel commences in Japan in 1947, and subsequently takes in Hong Kong, England and New Zealand. Written in the third-person narrative, the novel principally follows its protagonist, the decorated British war veteran Aldred Leith, who is travelling through post-war Asia to write a book. At times the narrator follows Peter Exley, an Australian"
"Vanity Fair (novel) Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his"
"time to complete the special effects work. The Moon and the Sun The Moon and the Sun is a novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre, published in 1997. The book combines two major genres: science fiction and historical romance (also known as alternate history). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997, beating out ""A Game of Thrones"" by George R. R. Martin. The novel was inspired by the short story (written in the form of a faux-encyclopedia article) ""The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea"", also by McIntyre, which was illustrated by"
"absurdity.' The Book of Illusions The Book of Illusions is a novel by American writer Paul Auster, published in 2002. It was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004. Set in the late 1980s, the story is written from the perspective of David Zimmer, a university professor who, after losing his wife and children in a plane crash, falls into a routine of depression and isolation. After seeing one of the silent comedies of Hector Mann, an actor missing since the 1920s, he decides to occupy himself by watching all of Mann's films and writing a book"
"October 1496. In that time, Florence has endured political upheaval, warfare and famine. Religious fervour has swept through Florence under the leadership of Savonarola, culminating in the Bonfire of the Vanities. The League of Venice has declared war on the French king and his Italian ally, Florence. Starvation and disease run rampant through the city. Romola, now a supporter of Savonarola, helps the poor and sick where she can. Meanwhile, Tito is embroiled in a complex game of political manoeuvring and duplicitous allegiances in the new Florentine government. Mirroring this, he has escaped attempts by Baldassarre to both kill and"
"wife, Jane Schindelheim. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Wenner played an integral role in popularizing writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Fong-Torres, Paul Nelson, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Grover Lewis, Timothy Crouse, Timothy Ferris, Joe Klein, Cameron Crowe, Joe Eszterhas and P.J. O'Rourke. He also discovered photographer Annie Leibovitz when she was a 21-year-old San Francisco Art Institute student. Many of Wenner's proteges, such as Crowe, credit him with giving them their biggest breaks. Tom Wolfe recognized Wenner's influence in ensuring that his first novel, ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"", was completed, stating ""I was absolutely frozen with fright"
"Although what Thackeray principally objected to was glorification of a criminal's deeds, his intent may have been to entrap the Victorian reader with their own prejudices and make them think the worst of Becky Sharp even when they have no proof of her actions. The book has inspired a number of adaptations: Vanity Fair (novel) Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying"
"triumph against the emerging U.S. government's plan to remove native Cherokee people to Oklahoma. Based on the success of ""Cold Mountain"", Frazier was offered an $8 million advance for ""Thirteen Moons"". Frazier's 2011 book, ""Nightwoods"", takes place in the 20th century, although the setting is still the Appalachian Mountains. Frazier's fourth novel, ""Varina"", was based on the life of Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America. It was published in 2018. Charles Frazier Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for ""Cold Mountain"". Frazier was"
"Kill"", ""Student Affairs"", ""Young Nurses in Love"", and ""Slammer Girls"", a spoof of the women in prison film genre. Her first significant role was in ""Stealing Home"" (1988), in which she played the sexy neighbor who seduces a young, innocent Jonathan Silverman. In 1990, she had a small part in ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"". Her movie credits include ""Man of the Year"" (1995), ""Maternal Instincts"" (1996), ""Breast Men"" (1997), ""Psycho Beach Party"" (2000) and ""The Inner Circle"" (2003). She also played a small role in the movie ""Fools Rush In"" (1997), with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek, as a"
"Heartfire Heartfire (1998) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the fifth book in Card's ""The Tales of Alvin Maker"" series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son. ""Heartfire"" was nominated for the Locus Award in 1999. Alvin marries Peggy, and they conceive a daughter (not born by the end of the book). Alvin, Verily Cooper, Arthur Stuart, and Mike Fink are joined by John James Audubon, a French-speaking painter of birds. This group go to a Puritan-dominated place near Boston and end up confronting the witch laws. Meanwhile,"