The Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (#25).New York Times Notable Book 1991 and international best seller
This insider’s look at the movie business, said Newsweek, is “as close to the definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking as we’re likely to get.”
Legendary film critic Pauline Kael called it “the best book yet on how a big studio can shape the content of a movie.”
From NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour:
“Julie Salamon’s book The Devil’s Candy, about the making of the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities, is a favorite of mine. I was delighted to hear that Salamon herself was making and narrating a new season of the Turner Classic Movies podcast The Plot Thickens, which tells the story in podcast form. The first episode is entertaining — and just as juicy as the book.”
“The question of why good people make bad movies has never been answered more persuasively than in this book.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The most talked-about book in town.”
—The New York Times
“Delightful…Salamon is the perfect reporter…she has the novelist’s gift.”
—Vogue
“A great story has found its meticulous teller…Ms. Salamon conveys with energy and tenacity the characters and emotions that shape the progress of a film-production juggernaut, and gives us one of the few panoptic accounts we have of a demanding and dangerously collaborative art.”
——The New Yorker
Nice shout out from Director Judd Apatow in NY Times Book Review, June 8, 2015