Movies
Don’t You Forget About Me Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes Edited by Jaime Clarke Foreword by Ally Sheedy Simon & Schuster: 224 pp., $14 paper
Feb. 17, 2007
Archives
Could it be time to put more candles on the cake?
June 7, 2005
Obituaries
Hughes, whose films showed an understanding and respect for adolescents, directed such films as ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ and wrote ‘Home Alone.’
Aug. 7, 2009
John Hughes: He made weird normal
Aug. 13, 2009
Television
Sixteen Candles (Channel 13 Sunday at 6 p.m.) is an uneasy mix of the sympathetic and the synthetic, the raucous and the racist--pity poor Gedde Watanabe, cast as a sex-starved Chinese exchange student.
May 21, 1989
‘The To Do List’ director: Making a dirty ‘Sixteen Candles’
July 25, 2013
Entertainment & Arts
Rumors of a falling-out between film maker John Hughes and Paramount Pictures solidified this week with the announcement of a new, non-exclusive deal between Hughes and Universal Pictures.
April 21, 1988
Michael Schoeffling, co-starring in “Mermaids” as a mysterious convent caretaker who captures Winona Ryder’s teen-age fancy, may never have to stand in the unemployment line.
Dec. 15, 1990
Anthony Michael Hall’s role in “Johnny Be Good” received low marks from movie critics, whose reviews of his performance have ranged from apathetic to harsh.
April 3, 1988
Maggie Carey envisioned her feature directorial debut as a dirty “Sixteen Candles.”