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Molly Ringwald: 'I Drink The Blood Of Kristen Stewart'

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.26.2012

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How has '80s star -- everyone's former teenage crush -- Molly Ringwald managed to only get better with age? She drinks Kristen Stewart's blood, of cou...

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Brat Pack 'Just An Annoying Label'

Posted 12.27.2011

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Being a member of the so-called "Brat Pack" is something Anthony Michael Hall has had to live with for nearly twenty-five years, and after watching hi...

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WATCH: Robin Thicke Opens Up On Threesomes

Posted 12.12.2011

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This week marked the release of singer-songwriter Robin Thicke's fifth studio album, titled "Love After War." In promotion of the project, Thicke stop...

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Emilio Estevez: We Are 'Wonderful, Beautiful Wrecks’

The Huffington Post | Debra Ollivier and Lauren Rosenblum | Posted 12.14.2011

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With a Hollywood career that now spans three decades, Emilio Estevez is once again on a roll. Now, the "Brat Pack" star of "The Breakfast Club" an...

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Classic 80s Movies Hollywood Hasn't Ruined -- Yet

Una LaMarche | Posted 09.11.2011

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The way to do a remake right, as evidenced by the 2004 monstrosity Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, is to give it a colon, a subtitle, and a plot preferably set outside U.S. borders. This alerts the potential viewer to the fact that it will suck.

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ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Protect the Nation, Mysteries of Lisbon, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Henry Kissinger, Black Venus, The Tempest, Anti-Christ, Certified Copy, Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff, The Last of England, The Warning, Pinochet, Salvador Allenda, Sophie's Choice, Prisoner 13, Richard Nixon, Scenes From a Marriage, Medea, Roger & Me, Itt, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pale Flower, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Aurora, Boxing Gym, Police Incident, The Social Network, Nuremberg, Film Socialisme, Another Year, El Compadre Mendoza, Foreign Parts, Naked, Let's Go With Pancho Villa, Career Girls, Gatos Viejos, Inside Job, Julie Taymor, Silence, Hereafter, The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Carlos, Smithereens, Revolucion, We-Are-What-We-Are, Arts News

by Michael Vazquez Two weeks after the close of the New York Film Festival, herewith, my first posting, by way of random notes on thirty-nine films: ...

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Life Moves Pretty Fast: Remembering John Hughes, One Year After His Death

Susannah Gora | Posted 05.25.2011

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For those of us for whom John Hughes' movies do mean so much, it's almost possible to suspend disbelief when "Pretty in Pink" comes on the radio, or when Sixteen Candles is on cable again.

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Molly Ringwald Book 'Getting The Pretty Back' Out Now

USA Today | Gayle Jo Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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The book is part style guide ("A black blazer can make you look more finished"), part entertaining bible ("Make sure you have enough wine to last"), p...

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Annals of the Over-rated: John Hughes

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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I had made a personal vow not to write about the Oscar winners or the Oscar show this year, simply out of boredom and crankiness. And my instincts wer...

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Don't You Forget About Them (Slideshow)

Susannah Gora | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the history behind the making of the seminal 1980s youth movies like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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John Hughes [RIP], "High School Harrys", the Tragedy of American Schooling and our Wider Priorities

Pye Ian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Little to no emphasis is placed on harnessing genuine critical thought in our K through 12 public schools. And mature social discourse, self-reflection and cognitive empathy -- the very kind Hughes demonstrated in The Breakfast Club -- are rendered irrelevant.

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Remembering John Hughes

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the set, Hughes did not conceal his enthusiasm about your work, as some directors feel they must. I have worked on some comedy films where the director was the least funny person on the set. Hughes was funny.

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John Hughes' Movies: Which Is YOUR Favorite? (POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The world lost a legend a legend Thursday with the untimely death of John Hughes, responsible for dozens of films. Below are 15 of our favorite fi...

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What We Learned from John Hughes

Beth Armogida | Posted 05.25.2011

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Can you imagine growing up without John Hughes' movies? His stories showed us how to laugh at our insecurities and, even more importantly, to laugh at other people's insecurities.

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Breakfast Club Forever!

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2011

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It wasn't long before the koffee klatch to which I paid fealty had a name. We were The Breakfast Club.

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Boredom in School and its Effects on Your Child's Health

Jenifer Fox | Posted 11.17.2011

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Some have argued children must learn to accept boredom. Learning how to get through it is part of the point, right? Wrong. Overcoming boredom isn't a matter of character development.

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The Gospel According To John Hughes

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Summertime is the slow season for most churches. Tripp Hudgins, the wonderfully clever pastor of the Community Church of Wilmette, seized this year's seasonal lull as an opportunity to do something artistically and spiritually creative: a four-week sermon series called "The Gospel According to John Hughes."

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Whatever Happened To John Hughes?

LA Times | Patrick Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOHN HUGHES hasn't set foot in Hollywood for years, but his influence has never been more potent. The king of 1980s comedy, Hughes now qualifies as so...

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