You loved the book! Now see the movie! That's how Hollywood used to sell films based on best sellers. But if the film is a notorious flop, like Cleopatra or Heaven's Gate or last year's The Bonfire of the Vanities, the pitch is, You hated the movie, now read the book about how this bad movie got made -- and how it got made so bad.
Julie Salamon, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, got to watch the accident in slo-mo close-up. In The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), she tracks all...
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