We're not really sure why, but this gives us great satisfaction. Something about overblown, overhyped, manufactured pablum falling on its self assured face makes us smile. In fact we think the real reason Mona is smiling is she knew all along this would happen.Plus, we will never forgive Tom Hanks for ruining another great book, The Bonfire of the Vanities, still fresh in our heads, some 16 years later.

