pretty in pink
We always agreed with
Angela Chase on
My So-Called Life when she described Anne Frank as "lucky." Angela's English teacher asks her, "How could Anne Frank be lucky?" and Angela responds, "'Cause she was stuck in an attic for three years with this guy she really liked." That's the part of Anne Frank that people should be focusing on, not all that dreary, depressing Holocaust and death stuff. This month,
Radar Magazine agrees with us, giving the
bland, old Anne Frank cover a sexy new makeover! After the jump, check out the other fab makeover
Radar gives to Holocaust bummer
Sophie's Choice. Sophie might have to choose between her children, but she doesn't have to choose an outdated aesthetic!
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silver screen showdown
Over on EW.com, writer Dalton Ross reports that
while his wife loves Pretty In Pink, he feels that Sixteen Candles is a much better movie. When he tells her so, she gives him a "deathly stare." (He doesn't mention that his wife is Christina Kelly — formerly of
Sassy,
YM,
Jane and
ElleGirl.) In any case, Ross makes the case that women like
Pretty In Pink, while guys like
Sixteen Candles. (He also acknowledges the greatness of
Breakfast Club and
Weird Science.) But in the battle of the Ringwald vehicles, Ross builds an argument for the superiority of
Sixteen Candles that is quite sound. (We're putting aside the fact that
SC is terribly racist.) First, John Hughes wrote and directed
Sixteen Candles, while
Pretty In Pink was directed by Howard Deutch. Secondly, while the cuteness of Duckie cannot be denied, Ross insists that Jon Cryer is merely doing his best Anthony Michael Hall.
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