The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() But then one night when he is with his mistress, Sherman takes a wrong turn off the freeway into the South Bronx and ends up hitting a black youth with his car because he perceives his life is in danger, and decides to not report the accident to police, to "hit and run". Sherman remembers his mother telling him a wife two years older would not make a difference when he was 24 and she was 26, but 20 years later it would, and actually it took only ten years. In the book, Judy McCoy, Sherman's wife, is described as handsome but matronly at aged 40. Hanks' character, Sherman McCoy, is a wall street tycoon, aged 38, with a wife two years older, a daughter he adores, and a young mistress that he insists he deserves all because he is a "master of the universe". Tom Hanks, even before Philadelphia or Forrest Gump or Sleepless in Seattle, played the likable every-man. ![]() I saw the trailer on TV, saw the disaster the film might be, but I went to see it anyways and I was very disappointed. It's been a long time since I read the book or saw the movie, but the casting in this film was all wrong. ![]()
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