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...been 25 years since five teenage archetypes sat down together for Saturday detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes...
...John Hughes' movies different from the many others directed toward a teen audience? The thing that made John Hughes so special was that he took kids and their problems seriously. He understood that the teenage years can be the most emotionally resonant, passionate, intense years of many people's lives - that these years are about so much more than just sneaking beer and trying to make...
...were you affected by Hughes' death last year of a heart attack at age 59? I had been sort of living with John Hughes - his spirit, his words and his ideas - for so many years, I really felt like I knew him. His passing was heartbreaking. I was touched to see the incredible outpouring of emotion from people all over the world who talked about how he made their teenage years more bearable...
...Monday, John Thain, who was Merrill's chief executive when the firm sold to BofA, got the top job at troubled lender CIT. Thain said he was interested in the opportunity to revitalize the small-business lender. "CIT can and will serve an important role in the recovery of the U.S. economy and the creation of jobs," Thain told reporters...
...John F. Callahan, a humanities professor at Lewis and Clark College, was friends with Ellison during his lifetime. Ellison’s wife named him literary executor after the author’s death...