Julie Salamon
Author of The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
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Julie Salamon lives in New York City with her husband and their two children. Julie Salamon was born on July 10, 1953 in Cincinnati Ohio. She was raised in Seaman, a rural village located in Adams County, Ohio. After graduating from Tufts University, she moved to New York City, where she received show more her law degree from New York University. While in law school, she was a summer intern at the Pittsburgh Press and then the Wall Street Journal, where she was hired as a reporter in the New York bureau (covering commodities and then banking) upon graduation from NYU. Salamon became the Journal's film critic in 1983, a job she held for 11 years. In 2000, she became the television critic for the New York Times, and then a writer in the arts section until 2005. Salamon has written a series of award-winning books, including Facing the Wind (2001), The Net of Dreams (1996), and Rambam¿s Ladder (2003). The Devil¿s Candy (1991) is considered a Hollywood classic about filmmaking gone awry, and her novella, The Christmas Tree, (1996) was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into eight languages. Her new book, "Wendy and the Lost Boys," a biography of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, will be published by The Penguin Press on August 22, 2011. Salamon was a reporter and the film critic for The Wall Street Journal for many years, and then a culture writer on the staff of The New York Times. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar, and The New Republic. She has been an adjunct professor at NYU¿s Tisch School of the Arts. For her 2008 work Hospital she was chosen to be a Kaiser Media Fellow for 2006-2007. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in September 2008. In the summer of 2010, she was a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where she completed her 2011 biography of Wendy Wasserstein, "Wendy and the Lost Boys." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon
Maybe this is a "me" thing, but I found The Devil's Candy to be compulsively readable. I haven't seen The Bonfire of the Vanities but I'm a HUGE fan of Brian De Palma and film history in general so my familiarity with the various references may have helped. I could have listened to outlines of hair and makeup tests for Melanie Griffith and Kim Cattrall all day.
Unflinching story of the making of a huge budget Hollywood movie by Director Brian de Palma and the enormous crowd of specialists involved in creating a movie. Julie Salamon had a very unusual degree of open access plus complete cooperation from De Palma and the crew and this is reflected in the book’s unique insider portrayal of how a movie gets made.
I was hoping for some technical details and some explanation of Hollywood accounting, instead it's mostly what you'd normally read in gossip mags, except well researched. Can't help but be annoyed by the reverence to the subject. You're making a movie. You're not building a plane, repairing a car, uncovering mysteries of the universe or saving lives. You're making entertainment. I wish the book kept some perspective on it.
The definitive story of one American family at the center of a single, shocking act of international terrorism that "manages to capture the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
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