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Flotsam & Jetsam
It’s No Coincidence That Spy And Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Both Came Out In 1986
4:09AM John Cook | Someone sent along this side-by-side of Kurt Andersen and John Hughes, two men whose sensibilities came to define the late ’80s and early ’90s, for better and for worse. Where have we seen this bit before?
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John Hughes’ Pen Pal Speaks
7:45PM the cajun boy | This is probably the best remembrance of John Hughes you could ever possibly read.
These Kids Would Love To Know Where ‘The Dark Knight’ Got Such Wonderful Toys
9:15AM Mark Graham | Was The Dark Knight, well, too dark for you? If so, then try this faithful recreation of the film’s trailer — starring an adorable cast of child actors — on for size. [Wizard Universe via AOTS] · You’ve been RickRolled, you’ve been ShaniceRolled, but have you ever been BarackRolled? [Videogum] · “The new stoner is a successful career man. In a time of T.J. Mackey, The Game, and John Edwards, the successful stoner is one who can captivate women purely by making them comfortable, a functioning part of the capitalist dystopia in which we now reside.” [This Recording] The next time you need to call a taxi to get your drunk arse home safe and sound, expect it to cost about 10% more. It’ll be worth it. [LAist] · “I wrote the first sentence–’If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever!’–and the rest was automatic.” — John Hughes, on writing Vacation ‘58, the story that would one day become National Lampoon’s Vacation [Zoetrope via Alex Blagg] More »
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 »
How I Met Your Bueller
8:24AM Seth | Sometimes, two seemingly mismatched things from disparate backgrounds and decades can come together in unlikely harmony. Just tap Catherine Zeta-Jones on the shoulder the next time you spot her sucking face with Michael Douglas and ask her. Or, alternately, you can watch the video above: More »
Official Denials Aside, The John Hughes Q&A Challenge Rolls On
5:34AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re thrilled with the reaction so far to Defamer’s John Hughes Q&A Challenge — or make that 99% thrilled, anyway, with a great outpouring of interest around the Web, some fabulous inquiries for our Reclusive Director Du Jour (”Was writing Weird Science the best two days of your life?”) and, alas, a polite but firm response from his representative. More »
Join the Quest For Answers in Defamer’s John Hughes Q&A Challenge
4:13AM Defamer Hollywood | Picking up on director John Hughes where our recent appreciations, laments and inquiries left off, Patrick Goldstein today has a more sweeping survey of the prolific filmmaker-turned-Great Lakes recluse. Of course we all know he’s missed, as Goldstein’s sources avowedly confirm (and despite his pseudonymous, decades-old contributions to Drillbit Taylor). But with little apparent likelihood for the director to return to work, we at Defamer are compelled to take matters into our own hands with our ambitious John Hughes Q&A Challenge. Allow us to explain after the jump.
