Happy 72nd Birthday, John Hughes
In which I talk about why he means something to me, and why his movies probably won't age well.
When I think about the seminal director John Hughes, the first thing that comes to mind is that he died in 2009 and that writing, for him, was not so much a profession as a condition of his life. The second thing is he only wrote and directed movies about suburban white kids and their parents.
I’m going to talk about the first thing for a bit.
I became …
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