As teen musicals go, ‘Bandslam’ rocks Aug 14, 2009
Hudgens is likable as this diluted version of Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, and you can tell she relishes not being the center of attention, but it s only a matter of time before Sa5m ascends to her proper place in the movie s scheme. Hudgens is, verily, the Ruby Keeler of her generation, which means she s going to go out there and become a star whether it makes sense or not. (Boston Globe)
'House Bunny' star Anna Faris weds actor fiance Chris Pratt in Bali, Indonesia Aug 13, 2009
House Bunny' star Anna Faris weds actor fiance Chris Pratt in Bali, Indonesia - WTIC. House Bunny' star Anna Faris weds actor fiance Chris Pratt in Bali, Indonesia. (FOX61, CT)
Hughes mourned at private funeral Aug 13, 2009
Hughes directed 1980s successes including The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Weird Science and Uncle Buck. As a scriptwriter, he also penned films including Home Alone, Pretty in Pink and National Lampoon's Vacation. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Molly Ringwald on John Hughes Aug 13, 2009
I still believe that the Hughes films of which both [Anthony Michael Hall] and I were a part (specifically Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club) were the most deeply personal expressions of Johns ... A darker spin can be gleaned from the words John put into the mouth of Allison in The Breakfast Club: When you grow up. (Slate)
John Hughes mourned at private service Aug 12, 2009
John Hughes, the writer-director best known for his 1980s hit films such as The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, died Aug. 6 of a heart attack at age 59 ... The director of "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" died of a heart attack Thursday during a walk in Manhattan. (MSNBC -- Movies)
John Hughes mourned at private service in Illinois; writer-director died at 59 in NYC Aug 12, 2009
The director of "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" died of a heart attack Thursday during a walk in Manhattan ... "The Breakfast Club". (FOX61, CT)
Hughes film set for world release Aug 12, 2009
The title comes from the Simple Minds song featured in The Breakfast Club ... Molly Ringwald, who found fame in Hughes' The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, refused to take part in the project. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Clean sweep: Readers prefer "Julia" to "Julie" Aug 11, 2009
"The Breakfast Club". "Sixteen C 00004000 andles ". (FOX61, CT)
John Hughes: an appreciation Aug 11, 2009
In three years, he either wrote or wrote and directed Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller s Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful - part living suburban diary, part generational scripture ... His movies turned adults and authority figures into buffoons - Jeffrey Jones and Edie McClurg in Bueller, Paul Gleason in The Breakfast Club - or bullies (John Ashton in Some Kind of Wonderful ). (Boston Globe)
Affable, emotional TV host turned viewers on to late-night talk Aug 10, 2009
" Jack Harold Paar was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1918. He quit school at 16 to work as a radio disc jockey. At 20, he announced Cleveland Symphony concerts for that city's CBS radio affiliate. As a member of the U.S. Army stationed in the South Pacific, Paar entertained troops with impersonations and other comic bits during World War II. He returned to radio after the war, appearing on "The Breakfast Club" and "The $64 Question. " He worked as a summer replacement for Jack Benny, a comic... (Yahoo News -- Jack Parr)
John Hughes' High School Pen Pal Aug 10, 2009
By Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 Director John Hughes, center, with the cast of The Breakfast Club ... In a fit of teenage obsession, Alison Bryne Fields wrote to John Hughes to tell him how much she loved The Breakfast Club. (Time.com)
The week in photos Aug 10, 2009
John Hughes, the man who wrote the films "Ferris Bueller's Day off," "National Lampoon's Vacation," "The Breakfast Club," "16 Candles" and "Mr. Mom," died in New York Thursday at age 59. In this photo, actor Matthew Broderick appears from a scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in 1986. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Hughes inspired today's teen films Aug 9, 2009
" Those are the opening lines from "The Breakfast Club," voiced by Anthony Michael Hall, accompanied by Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me). " And even though it's been nearly a quarter-century since John Hughes' seminal high-school drama came out, I still know them by heart. Any self-respecting child of the 1980s does. The news that Hughes died of a heart attack at 59 Thursday will, for many, strike the same sort of cultural chord that Michael Jackson's death did: It prompts more than... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Heart Attacks Like Hughes' Can Be UnexpectedA heart attack is often the first symptom of heart disease. Aug 9, 2009
A Thursday claimed the life of writer and director , whose iconic, teen-driven films included "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful," and launched the careers of "Brat Pack" members such as Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez. John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris... John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Planes,... (ABC News)
Actors Remember John Hughes As 'Regular Guy' Aug 9, 2009
Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s, captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," ''The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, spokeswoman Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.Jake Bloom, Hughes' longtime attorney, said he was "deeply saddened and in shock" to learn of the director's death.A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set... (KIRO TV, WA)
Back to the courts Aug 9, 2009
So like most people, I will follow the advice of the Simple Minds from the Breakfast Club end credits and I won t forget about Hughes. . (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC Aug 9, 2009
He was director of such movie hits as "National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone" and its sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.". NEW YORK (AP) - A spokeswoman for John Hughes says the director of 1980s coming-of-age films like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club" has died in Manhattan ... Ringwald also starred in "The Breakfast Club," about a group of... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Affable, emotional TV host turned viewers on to late-night talk Aug 9, 2009
" Jack Harold Paar was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1918. He quit school at 16 to work as a radio disc jockey. At 20, he announced Cleveland Symphony concerts for that city's CBS radio affiliate. As a member of the U.S. Army stationed in the South Pacific, Paar entertained troops with impersonations and other comic bits during World War II. He returned to radio after the war, appearing on "The Breakfast Club" and "The $64 Question. " He worked as a summer replacement for Jack Benny, a comic... (Yahoo News -- Jack Parr)
THOSE Arent PILLOWS!!! Aug 9, 2009
The director of that film, John Hughes, was a master in the film making industry with such works to his credit as Ferris Bueller s Day Off , Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , National Lampoon s Vacation and many others. Hughes passed away suddenly of a heart attack Thursday while visiting family in New York. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Welcome To The Club Aug 9, 2009
I sent the letter and a month or so later I received a package in the mail with a form letter welcoming me as an "official" member of The Breakfast Club, my reward a strip of stickers with the cast in the now famous pose. I was irate. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Venice Film Festival introduces award for 3D movies, 9 films to compete for prize Aug 9, 2009
9:10 AM EDT, August 8, 2009. ROME (AP) The storied Venice Film Festival is updating its awards lineup by offering a prize for the best 3D movie of the year. (FOX61, CT)
IGN Playlist: John Hughes Aug 8, 2009
John Hughes was a film director, producer and writer, best known for making some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s - including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Home Alone. Born: Lansing, Michigan on February 18, 1950. (IGN FilmForce)
A Latina on the High Court Aug 8, 2009
His biggest hits included Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He changed the way teenagers were depicted in movies at a time when Hollywood studios began to realize the purchasing power of that age group. (Slate)
Hughes 'made teenagers real' Aug 8, 2009
John Hughes, writer-director of "The Breakfast Club," "Sixteen Candles," dies at 59 ... Among his credits were "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Pretty in Pink," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Home Alone." ... Judd Nelson, who played "The Breakfast Club's" tough guy, talked about Hughes' ability to capture relationships in a statement and how it reflected the man behind the camera. (CNN)
1980's film icon Aug 8, 2009
(CNN) -- John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative ... Actress Ally Sheedy, one of the stars of "The Breakfast Club," said "I loved John Hughes. He was brilliant, he was lovely and he was kind. John handed me the chance of a lifetime and changed my world forever. What more can... (CNN -- US)
Hughes: Wisdom from the mouths of teens Aug 8, 2009
In 1985 s The Breakfast Club, a brain, a jock, a princess, a recluse, and a burnout come to understand each other over the course of a Saturday detention, knowing full well their circles would rarely intersect again ... All those teenagers who could recite whole scenes from The Breakfast Club are now pushing middle age, and many have children of their own. (Boston Globe)
Life Moves Pretty Fast: A John Hugh... Aug 8, 2009
How many nerds felt crushing pressure, like The Breakfast Club s Brian ... Hughes s The Breakfast Club (1985) was number two ... This theme appeared most strongly in the Molly Ringwald trifecta of Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink (1986), but was also the central conflict in Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987). (Suite101.com)
Molly Ringwald and More Pay Tribute to HughesMolly Ringwald remembers Hughes as an important part of her life and career. Aug 8, 2009
John Hughes: Molly Ringwald Pays Tribute to the Director of 'The Breakfast Club and ' Sixteen Candles' - ABC News ... Ringwald, a 41-year-old mother of three, also was featured in the writer-director's "Pretty in Pink" and "The Breakfast Club.". (ABC News)
Champion of teenage angst who owned the '80s Aug 8, 2009
JOHN HUGHES, the Hollywood director, producer and screenwriter who inspired a genre of teenage angst films and comedies about young outcasts, including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and who wrote the popular Home Alone series about a resourceful boy with very careless parents, has died in New York after a heart attack on a morning walk ... As a writer and director, Hughes helped make a star of the actress Molly Ringwald, who appeared in his films Sixteen Candles (1984), about... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Prolific film director John Hughes dead at 59 Aug 8, 2009
John Hughes, best known for directing a string of 1980s hit movies including The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has died ... He later followed it up with The Breakfast Club, about a group of teenagers who bond while stuck in detention, and 1986's classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, about a mischievous truant played by Matthew Broderick. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hughes' memorable film moments Aug 8, 2009
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) ... Killer quote: "What we found out is that each one of us is a brain and an athlete and a basket case a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club." - Brian Johnson. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Clips from Hughes' films Aug 8, 2009
Hughes was the director of such successful films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Sebastian Usher reports. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
John Hughes film clips Aug 8, 2009
He directed favourites such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. We take a look back at some of his most memorable films. (BBC News)
John Hughes Explains Music Choices In 1986 Interview Aug 8, 2009
We put the song in there because it was part of the movie,' director said of 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' in 'The Breakfast Club ... this point, with "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club," the writer and director had already changed the way Hollywood comedies were made, placing an emphasis on stories of teenage alienation and rebellion and, in past and future films, accenting the drama with cuts from '80s pop acts like the Smiths, New Order, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds and Lindsey... (VHI.com -- Music News)
John Hughes Said He 'Stumbled Into Teen Films' Aug 8, 2009
" Hughes, whose movies like "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" informed the lives of , admitted that he originally wanted to work with teen actors because he figured the younger the actor, the better chance that they wouldn't question his abilities. "I started making teen films because if I was going to direct, I wanted to make sure I didn't have an actor saying to me, 'You have no idea what you're doing,' because I didn't," he told MTV. "I figured, well maybe if they're like... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Exclusive: John Hughes Opens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview Aug 8, 2009
movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to ... Hughes was particularly taken with the Scottish band Simple Minds, whose "Don't You (Forget About Me)," was the anthem of "The Breakfast Club," and for him, an antidote to... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Tapped teen spirit Aug 8, 2009
He tapped into the teen zeitgeist with authority in the mid-1980s, writing such films as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Pretty in Pink." (He also directed "Bueller" and "Breakfast Club."). Hughes used a quote from David Bowie's "Changes" at the beginning of "The Breakfast Club": "And these children that you spit on / As they try to change their worlds / Are immune to your consultations / They're quite aware of what they're going through." ... "The Breakfast Club" is the... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Affable, emotional TV host turned viewers on to late-night talk Aug 7, 2009
" Jack Harold Paar was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1918. He quit school at 16 to work as a radio disc jockey. At 20, he announced Cleveland Symphony concerts for that city's CBS radio affiliate. As a member of the U.S. Army stationed in the South Pacific, Paar entertained troops with impersonations and other comic bits during World War II. He returned to radio after the war, appearing on "The Breakfast Club" and "The $64 Question. " He worked as a summer replacement for Jack Benny, a comic... (Yahoo News -- Jack Parr)
Full Story » Aug 7, 2009
Actors remember filmmaker Hughes as influential - Yahoo. Search Type Choose a search type from the items below. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
TIME Archive: Well, Hello Molly! Aug 7, 2009
"Sometimes her fans get the address and drive by real slow and stare," says Molly's mom Adele, "but then, I guess, they say, 'Naw, that can't be Molly Ringwald's house.' " Along with her family, the 18-year-old star of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink copes with fame by hiding in plain sight. Adele is in the cramped kitchen, slicing leftover turkey to the beat of a Merle Haggard cassette. (Time.com)
Aussies will struggle at Olympics Aug 7, 2009
JOHN Hughes, best known for directing a string of 1980s hit movies including The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has died. He was 59. (Yahoo News -- Swimming)
Read the story Aug 7, 2009
59-year-old Director of Coming-of-age Films like "The Breakfast Club" Had Heart Attack During Morning Walk in NYC ... Highlights from director/writer John Hughes' career includes "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club" ... (AP) Writer-director , Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Filmmaker John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies Aug 7, 2009
Writing scripts that could have come from inside their muddled hearts, monitoring their rampaging hormones, he built a smart shelf of adolescent zeitgeist films: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the movie etched in immortality by teacher Ben Stein's plaintive, froggy "Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?" ... His Molly trilogy Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, all starring actual teen Molly Ringwald mined the emotional convulsions that... (Time.com)
John Hughes: Hero To The Misfit Aug 7, 2009
Hughes was a writer and director with the ability to pitch scenarios to his characters' strengths and bring them of age, often in the end demonstrating their unrecognized potential to angry parents, as Kevin did in his "Home Alone" movies or to cookie-cutter educational-system figureheads like "The Breakfast Club" or "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." His Anthony Michael Hall roles in "Vacation" and "Weird Science" provided triumphant examples of accomplishment to gawky and oddball kids who couldn't... (VHI.com -- Music News)
John Hughes, 1950-2009, By Kurt Loder Aug 7, 2009
The following year came "The Breakfast Club," which helped make "Brat Pack" celebrities out of Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall. From that point, he pretty much owned the teen '80s with "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" (which he wrote) and "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (which he wrote and directed). (VHI.com -- Music News)
John Hughes dead at 59 Aug 7, 2009
John Hughes, best known for directing a string of 1980s hit movies including The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has died ... He later followed it up with The Breakfast Club, about a group of teenagers who bond while stuck in detention, and 1986's classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, about a mischievous truant played by Matthew Broderick. (The Age, Australia)
- Inked! Kids today need a John Hughes 0 Aug 7, 2009
Two of Hughes most popular films, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, dealt in broad-brush teen archetypes that were two-dimensional sketches of the rebel, the nerd, the preppy, the stoner, the prom queen, the jock, the weirdo loser, yadda yadda yadda. But there was just enough truth and Top 40 pop sugar to make those life lessons go down without an aftertaste. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
John Hughes; filmmaker captured teen heartbeat Aug 7, 2009
Mr. Hughes wrote and directed Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science (1985), and Ferris Bueller s Day Off (1986), among others, and he wrote and produced Pretty in Pink (1986) and Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) ... The Breakfast Club locked in the 80s high school stereotypes of princess (Ringwald), geek (Hall), jock (Emilio Estevez), thug (Judd Nelson), and freak (Ally Sheedy), marooning them in Saturday detention and welding them, by the end, into a defiant support... (Boston Globe)
Click to read:'80s Teen Flick Director John Hughes Dies Aug 7, 2009
59-year-old Director of Coming-of-age Films like "The Breakfast Club" Had Heart Attack During Morning Walk in NYC ... Highlights from director/writer John Hughes' career includes "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club" ... (AP) Writer-director , Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. (CBS News)
Hollywood film director John Hughes dies at 59 Aug 7, 2009
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood film director and writer John Hughes, who made a series of adolescent comedies like "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club," died Thursday of a heart attack in New York City ... It was also the first in a string of efforts set in or around high school, including "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink," "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off.". (Xinhuanet, China)
On the Waterfront writer Schulberg dies Aug 7, 2009
6: John Hughes, who defined the suburban comedy films of the '80s and '90s with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Sixteen Candles" and "The Breakfast Club," died of a heart attack Thursday. He was 59. (MSNBC -- Movies)
US character actor Gleason dies Aug 7, 2009
US actor Paul Gleason, whose most famous roles included Trading Places and The Breakfast Club, has died of a rare form of lung cancer aged 67. Gleason appeared in more than 60 films, often playing authority figures, including the angry head teacher in 1980s hit The Breakfast Club. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Director John Hughes Dies Of Heart Attack Aug 7, 2009
NEW YORK -- Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," ''The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.Jake Bloom, Hughes' longtime attorney, said he was "deeply saddened and in shock" to learn of the director's... (Click2Houston, TX)
The movies that defined a generation Aug 7, 2009
Video of the late John Hughes' most beloved films, from "The Breakfast Club" to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ... But for most of us, he will be remembered for a handful of movies: "16 Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink," "Weird Science," "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Like SE Hinton before him, Hughes' body of work captured what it was like to be young in a particular place, at a particular time ... "The Breakfast Club". (Salon)
Happiness: Staying Positive In Negative Territory Aug 7, 2009
Search the District, Virginia and Maryland. TORONTO - Pursuing happiness may be an inalienable right, but it's tougher keeping those spirits up while your 401(k) is lower than it used to be. (W-USA News, DC)
more. Friday, Aug. 07, 2009 Aug 7, 2009
Hughes is the man who wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Mr. Mom" and "Natonal Lampoon's European Vacation." He also wrote and directed "16 Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Weird Science." Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday ... "Sixteen Candles" set the tone for a short but influential string of movies, for and about teenagers, that Hughes would go on to write and direct in the next few years, including "The Breakfast Club" (an orgy of special pleading about misunderstood... (Salon)
Comedy Review: National Lampoon's C... May 19, 2009
Written by John Hughes writer of a handful of other classics such as Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone and Weird Science it stars Gerrit Graham as ex-jock Bob Spinnaker and Miriam Flynn as the popularity-starved Bunny Packard. Stephen Furst, who played Kent Flounder Dorfman in 1978 s Animal House, also stars in the film as the perverted classmate Hubert Downs. (Suite101.com)
18th Annual Marc's Great American Rib Cook-Off & Music Festival Sizzles with Value May 14, 2009
Bret Michaels from Poison and VH1's Rock of Love, local 80s party band The Breakfast Club and Cleveland's Jonah Koslen and Stage Pass Now all perform May 25. Visit to purchase tickets. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Gaming high school hell Apr 28, 2009
Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink specialized in exploring the highs and lows of coming of age during the decade of acid-washed jeans and permed hair. He turned tales of teen angst into movies that were heartfelt and humorous all at the same time. (MSNBC -- Technology)
With 'Adventureland,' teen sex romp genre gets injection of brains Apr 4, 2009
It is the best collection of outcasts and loners since "The Breakfast Club.". Mottola's script has a realistic bite, and he gets good performances out of his cast. (Fresno Bee)
Saturday's TV: Hendrix Live at Woodstock Apr 3, 2009
"Don't You (Forget About Me) from The Breakfast Club, The Power Of Love from Back To The Future, Ghostbusters by Ray Parker jnr.". The show might very well be subtitled Cinema Hits of the '80s - at least until Leung changes tack with tracks by Radiohead, Weezer, Sarah Blasko, the Audreys, Decoder Ring and more. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Coming events Mar 10, 2009
THE BREAKFAST CLUB weekly camaraderie and business lead exchange for business people, 7:30 a.m. Thursdays, Sizzler Pearlridge. PARADISE TOASTMASTERS meet 5-6 p.m., second and fourth Thursdays monthly, Tripler Army Medical Center, Managed Care conference room. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Back in time Mar 5, 2009
Assuming you were born in or before the 1980s, you should know all the words to the songs featured in tonight's Coolidge Corner Theatre sing-along, "DANGER ZONE: The 80s Movie Anthem Sing-Along." The evening of song will include "When Doves Cry" (from "Purple Rain"), "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (from "The Breakfast Club"), "Power of Love" (from "Back to the Future"), and our favorite, "She's Like the Wind" (from "Dirty Dancing," below). Sing out loud. (Boston Globe)
The 9 types of Facebook friends Feb 23, 2009
Just as "The Breakfast Club" featured the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess and the criminal, your Facebook friend list probably includes the guy who won't stop posting pictures of his dog, the girl who constantly gives spoilers of shows you have on TiVo and the dude who uses a picture of Boba Fett from the "Star Wars" movies as his profile photo. There's also your friend who posts about nothing except Barack Obama, your co-worker who uses Facebook to give constant updates about... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Grand Theft Auto: The story continues, gritty as ever Feb 18, 2009
Of the many great lines in the classic 1985 film "The Breakfast Club," my favorite has always been the knowing enticement delivered by Judd Nelson's character, the delinquent John Bender: "Being bad feels pretty good, huh?". It most certainly can, and that is why the Grand Theft Auto series is so successful, both commercially and artistically. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
