Like everyone else involved in the making of Bonfire of the Vanities, film critic and author Julie Salamon thought she was signing up for the movie of the year. Warner Brothers paid an enormous sum for the film rights to Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel, one of the most talked about books of the decade. They got Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis to star and hired director Brian De Palma, fresh off The Untouchables, one of the biggest hits in his long career. With a script […]