It's time to go back to the 80s, 1980s, New York especially.

Crime, corruption, griminess, dirtiness, everybody's fake. It's all depressing.

Let's turn that story into a movie. And who should we cast to be in the movie?

America's lovable splash actor, Tom Hanks.

That's the story of Bonfire of the Vanities, the Tom Wolfe novel published in

1987. I just read the book for the first time and I just figured I'd chat about it here

on Free For All Friday. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology. Friday,

you know, I talk about whatever I want to talk about. And I try to keep up with books.

I always try to pick a new classic or something to be about. And I try to keep up with books. I always try to

pick a new classic or something to be able to read and listen to. Broaden the horizons, if you will.

I've had a hard time, though, I mean, with my wife's medical diagnosis, things. I was churning

through books at the beginning of this year, and I was really enjoying it. After the diagnosis,

though, I really fell off the wagon

of reading things. I slowly got back into it, though. And so I wanted to read this one just because

I had heard of it before. I really had only heard of the book as a failed movie adaptation, the

1990 film, which I had not seen either. I just, all I knew was when you think about failed movie adaptations, people have always told

me the prime example of that is Brian De Palma's 1990 film, Bomfire the Vanity.

And Brian DePaulma is a very good director.

I think the one that I, when I think of him, I think of Mission Impossible.

He did the 1996 Mission Impossible.

I was 11 when I saw that, and that just blew my 11-year-old mind, the, I think, a mission impossible. He did the 1996 Mission Impossible. I was 11 when I saw that,

and that just blew my 11-year-old mind. This is cinema. This is not just like going to the movies,

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