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You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - Susannah Gora
By: ChipRawks Date: September 3, 2011, 10:47 pm
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[CENTER]You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John
Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation (2010)
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You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried is kind of a "biography"
about John Hughes, the creative genius behind the best teen
films of the 80's. But it's really about the movies themselves
and the influence that Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club,
Pretty In Pink, Some Kind Of Wonderful as well as other movies
like St. Elmo's Fire and Say Anything had on both pop culture as
well as those touched by them. It also goes into detail the
lasting legacy they have had over the past 25 years.
Even though a lot of the book is devoted to John Hughes and his
movies, a sizable portion is dedicated to both Joel Schumacher
and Cameron Crowe, as both St. Elmo's Fire and Say Anything get
dissected in ways I've never thought of before with a lot of
background stories, which I found very interesting. But as the
cover of the book alludes to, the majority is about John Hughes
films.
I thought I knew most of the background stuff regarding pretty
much all the movies associated with Hughes. Boy, was I ever
wrong. The most revealing stuff had to do with Some Kind Of
Wonderful and all the turmoil behind the scenes during the
making of that movie. I never knew that Eric Stoltz and John
Hughes almost came to blows during the first day on set during
the table read.
The other eye opening info had to do with how Hollywood in a way
"corrupted" Hughes. As he became more and more powerful in
Tinseltown, he started to change, and not in a good way as he
began to alienate those closest to him as his head began to get
bigger and bigger. Even though we get a lot of dirt about the
man, it's doesn't go into great detail about his life. I won't
fault the book for this because it's about his movies and their
impact and not about where he came from.
Also dissected is how the Brat Pack moniker came to come about
and how it affected those saddled with that label and how
careers and friendships were ruined because of it.
I may be a bit biased, but because I'm a huge fan of all his
movies and enjoy reading about them, giving the book 5 Stars was
easy.
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Re: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - Susannah Gora
By: ChipRawks Date: September 3, 2011, 10:49 pm
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[CENTER]Talking with Susannah Gora
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Susannah Gora (DayBreak - Part 1)
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Susannah Gora (DayBreak - Part 2)
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CICNPBXUoE
Susannah Gora (DayBreak - Part 3)
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Re: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - Susannah Gora
By: ChipRawks Date: September 3, 2011, 10:53 pm
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Here is the actual New York article that created the Brat Pack
name and destroyed friendships and careers.
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Re: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried - Susannah Gora
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 2, 2015, 8:15 pm
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[center]Judd Nelson Is Still P i s s e d at the Guy Who Coined
the Term 'Brat Pack'
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Good read. Too short though.
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