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Hey Hey Hey Hey: A Video Tribute To Molly Ringwald On Her 40th Birthday
Posted by Mark Graham at 10:55 AM on February 7, 2008
It's days like this when we realise that the slow march of time will one day get us all. But rather than cower in the face of the impending onset of arthritis and Old Person Smell, we instead chose to assign Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer the enviable task of creating an `80s-tastic video tribute to everyone's favorite icon of Reagan Era adolescence, Molly Ringwald. Happy 40th birthday, Molly -- you'll always be our favorite firecrotch.
It's days like this when we realise that the slow march of time will one day get us all. But rather than cower in the face of the impending onset of arthritis and Old Person Smell, we instead chose to assign Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer the enviable task of creating an `80s-tastic video tribute to everyone's favorite icon of Reagan Era adolescence, Molly Ringwald. Happy 40th birthday, Molly -- you'll always be our favorite firecrotch.
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whoneedslight
Posted 10:11 AM 7/2/08
Molly is of the Neve Campbell school of acting... all facial tics and voice inflections. But I love her.
Incidentally, I saw her at a restaurant once and she literally glowed. Gorgeous skin.
whoneedslight
TheStarterWife
Posted 10:11 AM 7/2/08
Let's not overlook For Keeps.
TheStarterWife
hack-a-rific
Posted 10:11 AM 7/2/08
OH BOY! It's Brat Pack day at Defamer! Get your pouts on and celebrate!
hack-a-rific
heidiho
Posted 10:11 AM 7/2/08
So many Mollys.
Kudos to including the Facts of Life scene. That season was the greatest!
heidiho
iheartschadenfreude
Posted 10:11 AM 7/2/08
I have always wanted her Breakfast Club boots
iheartschadenfreude
whoneedslight
Posted 11:12 AM 7/2/08
I loved Pretty in Pink, but let's be honest. I wouldn't have wanted Ducky or Blaine. A better love interest and a better dress would've improved the movie tenfold.
whoneedslight
TryThisAtHome
Posted 11:12 AM 7/2/08
I always thought that her "Pretty in Pink" dress, the one that she made for the prom from cut up pieces of old dresses given to her by Annie Potts was horribly, horribly ugly. Was this some kind of evil plot to get kids to wear their mother's cut up cast offs as "fashion?" Oh, and Ducky was the bomb!
TryThisAtHome
Her_royal_Highness
Posted 11:12 AM 7/2/08
Huge fan of her stuff. Love it...Just love. Although I must say that I would have chosen Ducky in "Pretty in Pink" not Mr. Posh-whatshisface. He especially won brownie points with me when he did that Otis Redding reenactment.
Her_royal_Highness
el smrtmnky
Posted 11:12 AM 7/2/08
* sigh * jake ryan. wherefore art thou?
el smrtmnky
OldTowneTavern
Posted 11:12 AM 7/2/08
@hack-a-rific: See, we may have thought we were moving forward in time, but this just proves that we've really been caught in some hideous Twilight Zonish time loop. We are actually at the mercy of a sociopathic freckle faced kid who's probably about to send me to a cornfield for blowing the whistle.
OldTowneTavern
littlebluebug
Posted 12:12 PM 7/2/08
@Her_royal_Highness: John Hughes thought so too; apparently he wrote Some Kind of Wonderful in response to the studio's making him change the ending to Pretty in Pink.
littlebluebug
secretagentman
Posted 12:12 PM 7/2/08
@el smrtmnky: He was beautiful wasn't he? One of my first boycrushes. He quit the business years ago and owns a furniture making business in Penn. Not that I'm stalking him or anything.
secretagentman
LAGirl
Posted 12:12 PM 7/2/08
awwwwww....i loooooved Sixteen Candles. and i had the biggest crush on Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink. DANG. i feel so OLD.
LAGirl
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
Early Facts of Life is priceless. I have not seen that footage since it originally aired.
Hee hee she's even older than me!!!
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Oldboy
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
God I'm ten years older than her. Get me the Seconals and booze NOW.
Oldboy
gunshy007
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
Sweet. Reportedly, there is talk of a sequel: "36 Candles." I wouldn't mind seeing what "Steph" (James Spader")has been doing for the past 24 years.
gunshy007
Her_royal_Highness
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
@TryThisAtHome: I agree, the dress was horrible. It looked better before she tore it to shreds.
Her_royal_Highness
DukeLaCrosse
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
Even though Molly's not a real firecrotch, I love her nonetheless.
And I would have chosen Ducky as well, even though he was a flaming 'mo. I mean, c'mon, people.
DukeLaCrosse
Looker
Posted 2:13 PM 7/2/08
I just Googled Molly to see what has been up with her, and everything lists her birthday as February 18. Is it actually today?
Looker
redreb
Posted 5:11 PM 7/2/08
I still can't pick-up a pair of sunglasses without thinking, "for better hallway viewing."
Perhaps it's because I'm inching closer and closer to that 40-year-old milestone than I care to think about, but once Spicoli turned 40, I am no longer shocked by the members of the Brat Pack turning 40.
redreb
hack-a-rific
Posted 5:11 PM 7/2/08
@Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: Have no fear- the early years are on the Facts of Life box set! Yes, I own it (and totally got it b/c it has the boarding house eps).
hack-a-rific