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...could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson's girlfriend, and Short Circuit, in which she befriends a robot. Blue City received bad reviews and is sinking out of sight. Short Circuit drew mixed notices but is a box-office smash. Neither required her to stretch much beyond the pretty post-high schooler she's already played several...
...Sure as Sony makes videotape, unknown young directors with the artistic sensibility of not-yet-great white sharks are prowling the Taco Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them and shooting their best Judd Nelson looks. And 14-year-old girls in shouldn't-be-legal shorts are looking cute and plotting how to be Katharine Hepburn, or maybe even Ally Sheedy. The classes of '87 through '90 are already hard at work...
They are also funny movies, finely crafted and boasting spectacular ensemble acting. Some of the young actors--Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy--have become brand names, a veritable Hughes' Who, in any household with an occupant under 18. But in these films they are consorts to the princess in pink. "Molly is in a class of her own," Hughes says, "as a bankable box-office attraction. Now audiences will go see a 'Molly Ringwald film.' " Hughes wrote his scripts for her, tailored the characters to her precocious range of emotions, found in her the focal point...
...Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel...
...coax them effortlessly to the surface. Feel bad, Sam? Her face puffs, flushes and blotches; depression looks like an instant allergy. Feel good, Andie? Her face lights up like a neon billboard on Sunset Strip. "She has this terrific ability to express things without saying anything," says Judd Nelson."She lets you see into her for a moment. And then, when she wants to, she turns...