Re: (TV) Re: Now we're really off-topic... Sixteen Tulips & Sixteen Candles

[eric gregory <crackcity_2000@yahoo.com>]

whoa...i hate that i know this but philip, yr talking
bout a different hughes movie than "16 candles"...it
may be "pretty in pink" (never saw that one), but "16
candles" has a different hunk-o' dude than andrew
mccarthy & her geeky sidekick pal is anthony michael
hall who does get the 'hot' cheerleader, i believe...
jesus...curse my parents for conceiving me when they
did...i came of age in the 80s (turned 16 the day
reagan was 1st elected prez) & tho i'm innately
immersed in all that decade's wondrous glory, i do do
wish i'd come of age in the 60s or 70s...but what can
a poor boy do?
--- "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- g grant <grntg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ha ha ha, that's really clever!  I think it was an
> > honest mistake but all the 80's talk as of late
> may
> > have set something off in my subconcious stream. 
> I
> > completly forgot that Sixteen Candles had a
> somewhat
> > darker ending.  
> 
> "Darker"? Well, depends how you look at it - in the
> original, Molly Ringwald
> and her devoted friend Ducky get together at the
> end, and shame the rest of the
> school by being outstanding dancers (or something
> like that). Happy ending.
> Audiences loved Andrew McCarthy, however, so they
> trashed the original ending
> and filmed an incongruous ending where rich-boy
> McCarthy *does* get together
> with Ringwald, and they invent an unbelievably hot
> bimbo for Ducky at the very
> last minute.
> 
> Hughes reversed the genders of the characters and
> made a movie with the
> "correct" ending for "Some Kind of Wonderful" a year
> or two later, although all
> of the actors were about 25, and it shows. (All of
> the characters are also
> named on a Rolling Stones theme - "Amanda Jones",
> "Watts", "Keith", etc).
> 
> > My neighbor at work keeps asking me what's so
> funny
> > but I don't think she would get it!
> 
> Yeah, she'll probably glaze over when you get to
> "It's not really clear why the
> record was rejected, but shifting pop-music tastes
> combined with a reluctance
> for the broader market to embrace Verlaine's unique
> but tuneful songwriting
> style may have exacerbated tensions with Fontana
> even before Bascombe finished
> mixing the tracks..."
> 
> --Philip
> 
> 
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