{"id":204,"date":"2008-03-25T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/the-man-who-defined-white-suburban-partying\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T20:28:43","slug":"the-man-who-defined-white-suburban-partying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/25\/the-man-who-defined-white-suburban-partying\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Defined White Suburban Partying"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

John Hughes’ imprint remains<\/h2>\n

He’s still revered in Hollywood, but whatever happened to the king of the teens?<\/p>\n

By Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

JOHN HUGHES hasn’t set foot in Hollywood for years, but his influence has never been more potent. The king of 1980s comedy, Hughes now qualifies as something of a Howard Hughes-style recluse — he doesn’t have an agent, doesn’t give interviews and lives far away, somewhere in Chicago’s sprawling North Shore suburbs where most of his films were set.<\/p>\n

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But he has an entire generation of fans in the industry who grew up infatuated with his films, especially a string of soulful mid-1980s teen comedies that helped capture the eternal drama of modern teenage existence. They include “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Breakfast Club,” which no less an authority than Courtney Love once called “the defining moment of the alternative generation.” Any number of successful actors and filmmakers, from Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith to Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller and Wes Anderson, are fans, having soaked up Hughes’ keen observational humor, love of mischief and shrewd dissection of social hierarchies.<\/p>\n

“John Hughes wrote some of the great outsider characters of all time,” says Apatow, the writer-director-producer whose new film, “Drillbit Taylor,” is loosely based on an old Hughes story idea. “It’s pretty ridiculous to hear people talk about the movies we’ve been doing, with outrageous humor and sweetness all combined, as if they were an original idea. I mean, it was all there first in John Hughes’ films. Whether it’s ‘Freaks and Geeks’ or ‘Superbad,’ the whole idea of having outsiders as the lead characters, that all started with Hughes.”<\/p>\n

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