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...films provide a glimpse of what a no-smoking--or low-smoking--Hollywood would be like. Producer Lindsay Doran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep Ferris Bueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to do the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember...
Lane doesn't let Broderick be reticent. He forces him out, keeps him from coasting on that effortless Ferris Bueller charm. "It's comfortable and at the same time not too comfortable," Broderick says. "It's very on-your-toes. He's very challenging onstage. It sounds like a boxing match--and it is, a little bit. There are elements of competitiveness, but it's the good kind. He's very agile. You have to pay attention...
With hours to kill in Chicago, you could do worse than Ferris Bueller, actor Matthew Broderick's amiably conniving teen antihero from the 1986 comedy who played hooky and turned the town upside down. But almost two decades later, you could also do much better. Over the years the Windy City has continually reinvented itself, adding world-class tastes to its legacy of blues, comedy and 1920s-era speakeasies...
...through his work as a screenwriter, he met the producers of Ferris Bueller, who let him try out for the part of Ferris’ teacher...
...from his persona as a nerdy teacher calling for “Bueller...Bueller,” Ben Stein quoted lyrics from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and cracked a series of jokes at Harvard Law School’s Class Day yesterday, before ending on a more serious note by urging students to be grateful to their parents...