I just reread that article from Molly. Very good. I did not realise that the National Lampoon article "my vagina" was by Hughes. I learned this in 2020 , Decades after.
On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 6:30 p.m. Kevin M., <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:24 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oh yeah. breakfast club was another movie (from high school for me) that >> I thought was great. Decided to watch it with my first son. Enter drug >> scene... 💬 " Oh shit, I should have talked to my son about pot"💬 >> > > A year or two ago, Molly Ringwald wrote about watching her John Hughes > films with her daughter, and all the stuff in them that are culturally very > wrong to show to teenagers now, even under the pretense of comedy. I don’t > necessarily agree with all the points she made, but her perspective is > interesting. > > > https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink/amp > > > > >> >> >> On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 6:13 p.m. Kevin M., <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:53 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite >>>> SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay >>>> slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. >>>> Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved >>>> it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind. >>>> >>> >>> Along similar similar lines, one of my favorite movies to watch on >>> broadcast TV was The Breakfast Club, where all uses of the phrase “f*ck >>> you” were replaced by the ubiquitous “flip you!” But the best part of the >>> TV edit is they remove entirely the scene when all the kids get high, which >>> in-so-doing the rest of the film makes absolutely zero sense. >>> >>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:39 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Blazing saddles. I had great memories of laughing while watching that >>>>> movie with my father. So when I saw (about a decade ago) it in the TiVo >>>>> listings, I recorded it. >>>>> >>>>> I then proceeded to talk it up to my 8(?) Year old son. We sat down >>>>> one Friday night to watch it. Upon the second mention of the n-word, I >>>>> was wide-eyed as I had totally forgot the flagrant use of the word. My >>>>> primary memory was the fart scene. >>>>> >>>>> I had to pause the movie and explain old day racism. An educational >>>>> moment on a Friday night. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 9:22 a.m. Tom Wolper, <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:38 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I recall when the Family Channel (don’t remember if it was Fox or >>>>>>> Disney at that time) ended up with the rights to air Blazing Saddles. I >>>>>>> believe the TRT with commercials was under 45 minutes >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> In the late1970s one of the networks bought the rights to Blazing >>>>>> Saddles and put it on in prime time. They dubbed in to replace the >>>>>> profanity but left in the n-word. Something that will always stick with >>>>>> me >>>>>> was that in the original the sheriff said to an old woman, "Isn't it a >>>>>> beautiful day, ma'am?" and she replied, "Up yours, n****r." In the cut >>>>>> for >>>>>> network TV she said, "Outta my way, n****r, as if that's where the >>>>>> sensitive point was. 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