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Soundtrack Saturday: The John Hughes Edition
Kelly Stitzel reveals the original inspiration for Soundtrack Saturday in her tribute to filmmaker John Hughes
Read More »Bootleg City: Top 17 Songs of the ’90s
For this special edition of Bootleg City, I’m spotlighting the top 17 songs of the ’90s, a decade we can all officially start nostalgicizing on January 1, 2010. Until then we’re in limbo, if
Read More »Basement Songs: Otis Redding, “Try a Little Tenderness”
It's time for another edition of Basement Songs -- and this week, Scott Malchus has John Hughes on his mind
Read More »John C. Hughes on John Hughes
Filmmaker John Hughes, who reinvented the teen film in the '80s, has died, and our own John C. Hughes remembers what it was like to be a teen growing up with films like Pretty
Read More »Jesus of Cool: John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, and a Kiss…of Death
If you were a GenXer coming of age in the 1980s, moviegoing meant heavy doses of Harrison Ford, too much Tom Cruise, an occasional journey into the unhinged eraserhead of David Lynch…and multitudes of
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