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Recently Unearthed Spy Magazine Hatchet Job Helps Explain Why John Hughes Won’t Return Our Calls

6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | After receiving a lawyerly talking to and even getting within one very, very close degree of separation from our target yesterday in the John Hughes Q&A Challenge, we’re convinced that A) John Hughes knows about our quest for answers, and B) he has absolutely no intention of or interest in playing ball. While our feelings are slightly tweaked by Mr. Hughes’ unwavering rejection, we can’t take it too personally. After all, if one of the last experiences you had with the press — recently unearthed from the Spy Magazine archives by Jeffrey Wells — labelled you as an “impossible” and “capricious bully” who was responsible for “childlike rampages through [Hollywood's] playpen,” then perhaps you would refuse even the most innocent of media inquiries as well: “[I]t’s not [worth it],” one former Hughesland resident concludes. ‘Because his movies ultimately aren’t that good. I don’t think anyone should treat people like shit and get away with it just because they’re a filmmaker. It would be different,” he suggests, “if he were Martin Scorsese.” … More »