![]() ![]() This story appears in the December/January 2021 issue of Town & Country. Maybe we just didn’t listen closely enough last time. Indulging its overindulgence, Bonfire has important things to say. Madison Beer took a classic approach to her latest look in Los Angeles on Tuesday at Vanity Fair’s Vanities Party: A Night For Young Hollywood. “The way I constructed the book, almost every chapter was meant to be a vignette about New York as well as something that might advance the story, and to me one was as important as the other.” Amazon Studios bought the rights to make an eight-episode adaptation of the book in 2016, but a series has yet to appear. An old tradition of burning of any objects that are regarded as sinful or immoral, as if a bonfire fueled by the condemned objects would erase the social. “It’s too bad movies don’t run nine or 10 hours,” he told me. Bonfire’s many layers would work far better as one of today’s limited series.īack in 1990 Wolfe was anticipating the future, though he didn’t know it at the time. It wasn’t until The Sopranos came along, in 1999, that long-form series on TV became serious rivals to movies. Wolfe coined the term "Master of the Universe" to describe bond trader Sherman McCoy, played by Tom Hanks. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a masterpiece, a riotous, exuberant and passionate epic that captures the greed and corruption of eighties New York and. ![]()
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