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What are some of the biggest lessons teens - and not just teens, but anyone - can take away from these films? Hughes basically wanted to say to teenagers, Look, it doesn't have to be that bad. I think in his films he was sort of telling people to believe in optimism. That, yes, the nerd can get the babe, and the jock can have a heart, deep down. The reason his movies are uplifting is because they're really honest about the elements of his characters' lives that do kind of suck, so that at the end, when they finally...
...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...
...It’s sort of like the biblical story of Abraham,” said Gates, referencing the father of the monotheistic faiths and his two sons—Isaac, the founder of Judaism, and Ishmael, the founder of Islam...
...great effort—an outside drive that we’ve been talking to the kids about, and she did a nice job of picking the corner,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “It was good, sort of gave us some energy...
...disappointing that we got two penalties right there, which I thought were tired, sort of frustrated penalties,” Stone said. “I thought we deserved them both...