The John Hughes Touch
When director John Hughes died, part of my high school and college years died with him. "The Breakfast Club," "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" were the soundtracks of my summers in those years. If you want to understand what it was like to grow up in the 80s, order these films off of Netflix.
One neat part of this New York Times feature was this special section, the "Quotable John Hughes". Don't miss it.
Image credit: Everett Collection; Universal Pictures; Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures via Associated Press
From left, Ally Sheedy in “The Breakfast Club”; Anthony Michael Hall in “Weird Science”; Molly Ringwald in “Pretty in Pink”; and Matthew Broderick in the title role of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
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JohnHello and welcome to StoryWorks. I'm John and this is my little corner of the Web.
In "East of Eden", John Steinbeck wrote, "If the story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule -- a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last."
I think that Steinbeck guy was onto something. That's why I'm sharing these stories.
Through words, images and sounds, these storytellers, storyworkers if you will, caught my attention. In some cases they captured my imagination.
Let me know if their stories resonate with you, too. I hope so.
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