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Molly Ringwald blev superstjärna på 80-talet efter sina roller i John Hughes “Sixteen Candles”, “The Breakfast Club” och “Pretty in Pink” (som Hughes skrev). Hon minns sin mentor från tonårstiden i en flerskiktad artikel i New York Times
“I still believe that the Hughes films of which both Michael and I were a part (specifically “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club”) were the most deeply personal expressions of John’s. [...] None of the films that he made subsequently had the same kind of personal feeling to me. They were funny, yes, wildly successful, to be sure, but I recognized very little of the John I knew in them, of his youthful, urgent, unmistakable vulnerability. It was like his heart had closed, or at least was no longer open for public view. A darker spin can be gleaned from the words John put into the mouth of Allison in “The Breakfast Club”: “When you grow up … your heart dies.’”

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