The Bonfire of the Vanities, written by Tom Wolfe, was originally serialized in Rolling Stone in 27 installments starting in 1984. It was published in novel form in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1990 the film version, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith, was released. De Palma's film was a critical and commercial disaster and it remains a notorious flop. Writer Julie Salamon was granted full accesss during production and produced an excellent making-of book called The Devil's Candy.The novel and film feature examples of: