The Devil's Candy (1992), Julie Salamon.

In 1990, Brian De Palma attempted to squeeze Tom Wolfe's humongous satirical novel Bonfire of the Vanities into 2 hrs of film. Julie Salamon, who had previously worked as a film critic for the Wall Street Journal, was given full access to the set and all players involved in the production while writing The Devil's Candy. Who knew that this movie would bomb so hard, making her book a classic work documenting how dysfunctional Hollywood can be. Salamon takes a completely objective point of view, giving a complete 360 of the production. Her detached perspective makes it difficult for the reader to assign blame to any one person or point to one main reason for the disaster. Her peek into the eccentric habits of actors and production folks is fascinating, and just adds to the fun of reading what is basically a list of dumb decisions.