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Molly Ringwald on John Hughes (New Yorker)
This is not the already-posted 4/6/18 Vanity Fair piece by Yohana Desta. This is Ms. Ringwald's piece in The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink
How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it? Erasing history is a dangerous road when it comes to art—change is essential, but so, too, is remembering the past, in all of its transgression and barbarism, so that we may properly gauge how far we have come, and also how far we still need to go.
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She brings up both the non-PS of Hughes' works, but also the realness that caused so many of us to feel so connected to them.
It's a strange place to be...Sixteen Candles was a huge staple in my teens/20's and for kicks a friend of mine and I would watch it annually. I look at it now and cringe on some levels.
Thanks for sharing this, Molly Ringwald continues to be one of my biggest heroines 
