The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New...
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A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin. The phrase itself...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis...
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Assassin's Creed II (category Video games set in the Italian Renaissance)
prequel to the main story and stars most of the game's cast. During development, two chapters—titled The Battle of Forlì and Bonfire of the Vanities—were cut...
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Tom Wolfe (redirect from The Purple Decades)
which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with...
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Gossip Girl season 2 (redirect from Bonfire of the Vanity)
The second season of the American teen drama television series Gossip Girl premiered on The CW on September 1, 2008, and concluded on May 18, 2009, consisting...
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Brian De Palma (category American writers of Italian descent)
there are a few failures along the way (Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars, The Bonfire of the Vanities), but look at the range here, and reflect that these...
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Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). At age 12, she garnered widespread recognition for her portrayal of Claudia in the 1994 film adaptation of Interview...
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Saul Rubinek (category Canadian people of Jewish descent)
Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven...
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effect Self-serving bias Bonfire of the Vanities Egotism Erotic capital False pleasure Narcissistic elation Selfishness Vanity gallery Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne...
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production of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). She married Scott Paetty on April 29, 2005. Broderick is a founding member of Momentum, one of the first...
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as The Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am Charlotte Simmons. Released eleven years after Wolfe's bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in...
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Liar's Poker (redirect from Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street)
the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and the fictional The Bonfire of the Vanities...
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Tom Hanks (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
suffered a run of box-office underperformers: The 'Burbs (1989), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). In the last, he portrayed...
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Melanie Griffith (category American people of German descent)
2018. Travers, Peter (December 21, 1990). "The Bonfire of the Vanities". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018. Gleiberman, Owen...
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Upper East Side (redirect from History of the Upper East Side)
by David Benioff The A-List series by Zoey Dean The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Devil Wears Prada...
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acquisitions with the fictitious Wall Street investment firm of Pierce & Pierce (also Sherman McCoy's firm in The Bonfire of the Vanities). Ellis also includes...
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Patrick Bateman (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
investment firm of Pierce & Pierce (also Sherman McCoy's firm in The Bonfire of the Vanities). He lives at 55 West 81st Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan...
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Bruce Willis filmography (redirect from Filmography of Bruce Willis)
2021). "Why did The Bonfire of the Vanities go from bestselling book to box-office bomb?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 6, 2021. Retrieved...
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chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that "a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what...
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term coined for the work of Hunter S. Thompson. The book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and a group of psychedelic enthusiasts...
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Michael Cristofer (category Directors Guild of America Award winners)
of Eastwick, adapted from the novel by John Updike; The Bonfire of the Vanities, adapted from the novel by Tom Wolfe and directed by Brian De Palma; Breaking...
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Michael Bergmann (category American people of Czech-Jewish descent)
Bergmann also wrote the libretto for Stefania de Kenessey's opera based on Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities and directed the premiere in New...
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art and literature in the centre of Florence known later as the "Bonfire of the Vanities". The Decameron was among the works known to have been burned...
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Clifton James (category Recipients of the Silver Star)
newspaperman to a potentially explosive story in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). James was featured a number of times by writer-director John Sayles, including...
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Peace Bridge (Calgary) (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
"Benchmarking Cost and Value of Landmark Footbridges" (PDF).[permanent dead link] "Cecil Balmond and the Bonfire of the Vanities". Wallpaper Case Studies...
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Fred C. Caruso (category Year of birth missing (living people))
producer for the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities with director Brian De Palma were detailed in Julie Salamon's 1991 non-fiction book The Devil's...
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The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2014. Travers, Peter (December 21, 1990). "The Bonfire of the...
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Kim Cattrall (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
British and Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Primetime...
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Don McManus (category Year of birth missing (living people))
Medicine Woman, and The Rookie. The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987) as The Caterpillar The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Bondsman True Colors...
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