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...Hollywood director and the suburban-Connecticut teenager exchanged handwritten letters once a month for two years. Byrne Fields learned to drive; Hughes made Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Byrne Fields and her mother moved in with her stepfather; Hughes sent her the script for his new film, Pretty in Pink. When the movie came out, Byrne Fields reviewed it for her school newspaper. "I gave it a bad review," she says. "I told him that Andrew McCarthy was bland." (See the top 10 John Hughes moments...
...1980s Hughes was the intimate chronicler, confidant and cheerleader of a generation of young people. Writing scripts that could have come from inside their muddled hearts, monitoring their rampaging hormones, he built a smart shelf of adolescent zeitgeist films: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the movie etched in immortality by teacher Ben Stein's plaintive, froggy "Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?" (See TIME's list of the top 10 Hughes movie moments...
...among those who can laugh at supply-demand curves. Yoram Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand-Up Economist*--but insists on the asterisk to honor exceptions like Ben Stein, who played the stupefyingly boring teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bauman does a killer parody of Greg Mankiw, chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, a YouTube video of which has been watched 500,000 times. He's also the subject of a Facebook group called the Yoram Bauman International Appreciation Society (Pakistan chapter...
Scenes of exquisite boredom at school, as the teachers drone on about such traditional crowd pleasers as the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Scenes of exquisite calculation at home, as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling...
...wanted to go to Africa as an obstetrician or the gung ho girl who thought college journalism was so, so important will make it out of here. But, it turns out, that’s not such a bad thing. At the risk of sounding too Ferris Bueller, college made me believe less in -isms, but more in myself...