Michael Cristofer is mostly known to recent audiences as the Corn Flakes-eating, conspiracy-plotting Truxton Spangler on the recently cancelled AMC series, Rubicon . What fans of Rubicon may not have realized is that Cristofer is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter who adapted Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities for the screen — an adaptation, which, 20 years ago this week, became one of the biggest screen disasters of all time.
