The Economist (US), December 22nd, 1990
NEW YORK HOW many liberties can be taken with a creative work before retaining its title amounts to a fraud on the public? The question has been raised by the airing of pop versions of three Mozart operas, "Don Giovanni", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Cosi fan tutte", on public television in the United States this season. It is posed with far greater force by the way the film "The Bonfire of the Vanities" bowdlerises the famous novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. Even before Brian De Palma, the producer-director, began filming a novel that satirises the ethnic tensions and class pretensions...
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