Tag: Fiasco

Free Download The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon
English | Jul 6, 2021 (2002) | ISBN: 9780306828874, 0306811235 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 1.3 MB
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking" (Newsweek), now the basis for the new season of TCM’s hit podcast, "The Description Thickens" and featuring a new afterword by the author

Free Download The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco (Audiobook)
English | June 15, 2021 | ASIN: B095XM21NC | M4B@128 kbps | 18h 17m | 996 MB
Author and Narrator: Julie Salamon
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe’s best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big. How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade. She shadowed the film from its early stages through the last of the eviscerating reviews, and met everyone from the actors to the technicians to the studio executives. They’d all signed on for a blockbuster, but there was a sense of impending doom from the start – heart-of-gold characters replaced Wolfe’s satiric creations; affable Tom Hanks was cast as the patrician heel; Melanie Griffith appeared mid-shoot with new, bigger breasts. With a keen eye and ear, Salamon shows us how the best of intentions turned into a legendary Hollywood debacle.
The Devil’s Candy joins John Gregory Dunne’s The Studio, Steven Bach’s Final Cut, and William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade as a classic for anyone interested in the workings of Hollywood.

Free Download Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink by Ethan Chorin
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 030682972X | 432 pages | PDF | 6.83 Mb
In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack provides a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era. Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries of "Benghazi!" still echo across America. But instead of a landmark event to be taken seriously, it has become a punchline, an empty word, or a code for controversy and political theatre. In this thrilling retelling, Ethan Chorin reveals Benghazi as a watershed moment in American history, one that helped create the world America lives in today: polarized, fearful, and dangerously unstable.

Free Download Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV4Y5XZ3 | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 648 MB
Author: Jerry Dunleavy, James Hasson
Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton
This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration’s most disgraceful hour-and the chaos it unleashed in the world. America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years.