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"That Girl Was, Is, And Will Always Be Nada"

haricot — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:54:23 EDT

Meg Cabot reads Jezebel.

Aaaand, I wrote her fanmail when I was 14 (I'm 21 now), and she wrote me back. I was thrilled. To. Pieces. It was clear she wrote back herself, not an assistant or anything.

Hi Meg! HI!!!! Aww. God, I love the Mediator series so much.

haricot

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something86 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:42:18 EDT

meg cabot is one of my favorite authors. and 16 candles is my favorite

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Brazz — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:21 EDT

I love Meg Cabot, as well as that movie (aside from my severe contempt for Blaine and his wimpiness)

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beatrice3000 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:22:34 EDT

I never liked Molly Ringwald. Whatever teen movie she was in, she would come off like a stuck-up bitch. It was fine for TBC, but not for PiP, or Sixteen Candles. And it was funny how her onscreen relationship with Dennis Hopper in The Pickup Artist mirrored her onscreen relationship with Harry Dean Stanton in PiP.

@lolacat: Did anyone else think it was funny that all the guys in high school detention look like men in their twenties and thirties doing time in the prison yard?

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pepsibennett — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:52:53 EDT

Thanks Meg. You made me smile and smile.

I wish PiP had more Duckie and Steph.

pepsibennett

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lolacat(ΩΜ) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:44:39 EDT

@adamcurryshair: I loved Duncan. I don't think that it was much of a coincidence that all the guys I dated up to my thirties looked more like Duncan than Jake Ryan. Combat boots, tattoos, shaved head. While Jake captured my heart in sixth grade (it's hard to fight that), Duncan was a lot more the type I ended up dating.

That movie saved me from so much 80's embarrassment it wasn't funny. Before I saw it, I was trying very hard to look like Jon Bon Jovi (I have no recollection why but I had a perm and duster, so...).

From memory: "I'm not going to hurt them. I'm not even going to touch them. I'm just going to make them cry a little. By looking at them."

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Avi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:44:20 EDT

Nothing really to add, just Meg Cabot rocks. : )

Avi

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adamcurryshair — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:20:34 EDT

@lolacat: I also wanted to be Watts; it was refreshing to have a female character that played drums, fixed cars, and still made herself vulnerable. I always preferred Duncan (Elias Koteas), the skinhead with the heart of gold from detention to Eric Stoltz.

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raoul j raoul — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:18:22 EDT

@littlemissvan: Me too. Which is why I love the Blues Brothers so much.

Back to the topic at hand - Ferris Bueller gets an honorable mention, but I was annoyed at how much they messed with Chicago geography. I vote for the Breakfast Club. I got into some trouble with school (and the law) as a teen at my rich kid's high school. John "Go fix me a turkey pot pie!" Bender is my favorite, though I was closer to Brian "I'm in the Math club" Johnson

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lolacat(ΩΜ) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:04:50 EDT

Some Kind of Wonderful. I wanted to be Watts. Seriously, John Hughes saved me from late-eighties mall hair because I was so enamored of Watts I cut and died my hair like hers. Although, I would have preferred Jake Ryan to have Eric Stoltz's role - cuz that would have made the fantasizing more consistent.

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type_slowly — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:32:54 EDT

I'm on team Sixteen Candles (obvi, see avatar) but I do love Pretty in Pink too. I would love a James Spader doll. In all seriousness, I would love to just move to 1980s John Hughes movie-world. I hope that is where I go when I die.

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CHOCOLATECOFFEEBEANS — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:13:47 EDT

@TrixieBelden: I loved Weird Science! When Aliens came out every time they showed Bill Paxton all I could think about was CHET. Big stupid hateful mean Chet. My favorite part was when the random motorcycle dudes ride into the house for the big confrontation to make the poor nerdy dudes look tough. And that woman when she is walking through the mess saying "you have a lovely home."

I am on a second go round of these flicks now at age 40. My 15 yr old thinks the Breakfast Club is bitchin. She loves it. I told her one day we will do a PIP, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club marathon (now I will have to remember to add Weird Science).

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elisa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:55:55 EDT

I like some of Meg Cabot's books...esp her "Size 12 is not fat!" series right now.

Anyways, Meg also gives beauty tips about your neck:

funny but true! "I don't want to inject poison in my neck..." or have her obituary say she died of plastic surgery. What to do instead?

elisa

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ceejeemcbeegee — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:54:27 EDT

Sixteen Candles, mos def. For my 16th, I asked my dad for Jake Ryan. I got an Integra instead. Not that I'm complaining, but...

I liked PiP but.... that dress... ACK! Everything that was wrong with fashion in the 80s is represented in that dress.

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Kittenish — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:45:27 EDT

Pretty In Pink. Definitely. I LOVED that movie. I still do.

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TrixieBelden — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:57:02 EDT

At lunch I was telling my coworker about me and my sister's unhealthy obsession with Weird Science when we were kids. We would watch that and Ghostbusters on a continuous loop.

Steff owns my heart, but in recent viewings of Ferris Bueller Cameron makes me tingle inside and out. Who needs Ferris, Cameron, take me away!

Jake Ryan? Boring, gag. @OhhYeah: And that is just depressing.

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MonkeySeeMonkeyDo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:47:45 EDT

Also, Pretty in Pink FTW. Or Some Kind of Wonderful.

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MonkeySeeMonkeyDo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:44:56 EDT

Steff is smoking hot. Hell, he still is, even on Boston Legal.

MonkeySeeMonkeyDo

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Ptarmigan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:40:53 EDT

@Ptarmigan: I am so pathetic, because I am laughing at my own comment.

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Ptarmigan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:40:18 EDT

Hands down my fav John Hughes film is Teen Witch.

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HPgirl — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:51 EDT

That video...sweet!

HPgirl

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fulanita — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:19:14 EDT

Breakfast Club FTW. My favorite by far. Although I'd take Stef or Jake Ryan over the any of them.

Meg Cabot writes the only non-Bridget Jones "chick lit" that I can stomach. I bought Queen of Babble for beach reading last summer and was so pleasantly surprised.

fulanita

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Oriana — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:06:03 EDT

I was a bridesmaid last summer for the first of my friends to get married, and the entire time we were down in Long Beach for the wedding my BF and I kept spontaneously turning to each other and quoting "Married?" "Mawied!" from that scene in Sixteen Candles. Still cracks me up.

Oriana

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steeny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:03:51 EDT

ok, big news is I like Meg Cabot now. I feel like I've worn myself out on Breakfast Club, so maybe Ferris Bueller. or Sixteen Candles. ugh.

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NoInheritance — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:58:29 EDT

There is no debate. It is Sixteen Candles, and it will always be Sixteen Candles. Jake Ryan has ruined me for any other man.

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cassie-la-barraque — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:57:38 EDT

That clip just made the world a benevolent place again.

A few years ago I walked past James Spader on the street, and my knees went weak. What is it about the assholes like Steff that makes them so appealing?

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redhooker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:54:22 EDT

Sixteen Candles without a doubt. I had a mad crush on a guy in college who looked like Jake Ryan, and I still day-dream about him from time-to-time...almost 20 yrs later.

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littlemissvan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:52:30 EDT

I actually had a dream about Jake Ryan last night! Sigh... Also, Ferris Bueller's day off has that awesome parade scene! I have always loved movies that feature random strangers coming together to perform synchronized dance numbers.

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dcdulce — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:41:21 EDT

"thanks for loanin' me the donger, he's real bitchin"

i remember seeing sixteen candles in the theatre (I feel old now)...i had the biggest crush on molly ringwald...sigh

dcdulce

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awesomesauce — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:39:28 EDT

God, I miss classic Hughes.

Why with the crappy new stuff John, why?

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OhhYeah — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:37:34 EDT

Oh I'm a P.I.P.er for sure. Blaine is just so... sincere. And dreamy. Not Jake Ryan hot, but maybe I like a little girlyness in my men.

But oh snap! I just wiki'd John Hughes and it looks like he's made a few other terrific faves:
- Home Alone
- Uncle Buck
- The Great Outdoors
- Maid in Manhattan (JUST KIDDING!)

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allora — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:34:17 EDT

Sixteen Candles all the way!

"I can't believe I just gave my panties to a dork..."

I didn't even see Pretty in Pink 'til much, much later in life. Embarrassing, I know. So by then I was just meh about it.

allora

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Dolly-At-School — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:31:35 EDT

That video makes me so happy. I'm torn between The Breakfast Club (points for drugs and literature), Pretty in Pink (points for hilarious subcultures), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (points for ingenious gadgetry and excuse-making). Oh, John Hughes.

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PorpoiseSpit — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:29:05 EDT

Ditto. I thought Stef was soo hot with his pointedly pointed looks and hair swishing. I tend to go for bitchy guys.

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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:28:18 EDT

Yeah, I tend to pick the assholes, so Steph it is....When it comes to Sixteen Candles though, the choice would be way different. Definitely would pick Jake Ryan in a heartbeat. Mmmmm

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