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...Spielberg of youth comedy." Well, his movies were popular, with big grosses on spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just what Hollywood needed and rarely got: somebody whose films...
...Hughes generated successful movie-comedy franchises as fast as other people wrote postcards. First the National Lampoon's Vacation films, with Chevy Chase as the harried nincompoop dad on some disastrous trip with his family. Then the teen movies, not strictly a series but with more or less the same rep company of kids. And then the blockbuster Home Alone, about an 8-year-old boy (played by Macaulay Culkin) stranded solo at Christmas, and its two sequels. Note that the protagonists of these films kept getting younger; Hughes was writing his emotional autobiography backward, like a sitcom Benjamin Button...
...they care about the characters. That's what I learned from the last two movies. This movie is just taking that one step further." For all his sex-drenched crudeness, for all the e-mails he sends me worrying about ulcers, Apatow is a bouncy, way-too-happily married dad who wants his audiences to know how great life is. And, more important, to remind himself. (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...
...only some of us would eventually be able to buy. I moved out at 19, paid my own way through college working part-time, and lived in shared apartments for years. It's an efficient use of property and a surer path to maturity than living with Mom and Dad until you can afford a down payment on a mortgage. The crisis is affecting Spain seriously, and to survive it will require bravery, creativity and initiative. Melanie Ator, BARCELONA, SPAIN...
...didn’t get to talk to any players, though I tried desperately to get a word in with Gary Matthews, Jr.—since his dad played for a long time with the Braves...