john-hughes
The Most Memorable Moments from the Oscars
Matt Cherette · 03/08/10 01:46AMMovies We're Thankful For: Dutch
Whitney Jefferson · 11/26/09 01:00PMQuick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
Brian Moylan · 08/14/09 02:47PMDon't You Forget About the Spot Where John Hughes Died
Brian Moylan · 08/13/09 04:26PMJohn Hughes Made Mixtapes for the Kids
The Cajun Boy · 08/12/09 03:36AMCan John Hughes' Death Sell Cameron Frye's House?
Brian Moylan · 08/11/09 11:14AMHere's Yet Another Nauseatingly Touching John Hughes Story
The Cajun Boy · 08/11/09 04:00AMJohn Hughes' Death Breathes Life into John Hughes Documentary
Brian Moylan · 08/10/09 10:57AMIt's No Coincidence that Spy and Ferris Bueller's Day Off Both Came Out in 1986
John Cook · 08/07/09 01:09PMHow Insulting John Hughes, And Maybe His Family, Made Me a Writer
Ryan Tate · 08/07/09 11:11AMJohn Hughes' Pen Pal Speaks
The Cajun Boy · 08/07/09 04:45AMJohn Hughes, Filmmaker
Pareene · 08/06/09 04:34PMHappy Birthday
cityfile · 02/18/09 07:45AMDesigner Doo-Ri Chung turns 36 today. Matt Dillon is 45. Yoko Ono is celebrating her 76th. John Travolta is turning 55. Magazine icon Helen Gurley Brown is 87. Writer Toni Morrison is 78. Molly Ringwald turns 41. Breakfast Club director John Hughes is 59. Singer Regina Spektor turns 29. Dr. Dre is 44. Cybill Shepherd is 59. Hedge fund manager Mark Kingdon is 60. Film director Milos Forman is turning 77. And Wheel of Fortune's very own Vanna White is 52 today.
These Kids Would Love To Know Where 'The Dark Knight' Got Such Wonderful Toys
Mark Graham · 08/11/08 08:15PM· 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 ass 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]
Recently Unearthed Spy Magazine Hatchet Job Helps Explain Why John Hughes Won't Return Our Calls
STV · 03/28/08 03:15PM
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 — labeled 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:
How I Met Your Bueller
Seth Abramovitch · 03/27/08 05:24PMSometimes, 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:
Official Denials Aside, The John Hughes Q&A Challenge Rolls On
STV · 03/26/08 02:34PMWe'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.
Join the Quest For Answers in Defamer's John Hughes Q&A Challenge
STV · 03/25/08 01:13PMPicking 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.
Smarty Documentarians Not So Smart
ian spiegelman · 03/22/08 11:12AMHere's a feature about how this poster for American Teen, a documentary about five Indiana high school kids, "isn't just just clever marketing." The image is a cute homage to John Hughes' perennial favorite The Breakfast Club, and American Teen "examines a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse, but then delves deeper, revealing these real kids to be far more than superficial stereotypes." But the part that I care about is that it's been done before.