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Article: My John Hughes Mixtape.(Arts and Living)

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August 21, 2009
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Last Tuesday I got a call on my cellphone. To be more accurate, I failed to get a call on my cellphone, as it has been malfunctioning lately, as my editors will attest (with accompanying exasperated sighs). I saw the call notification some time after the attempt: it was from my friend Mick. I texted her back and asked why she had called. Apparently, she had been at a Trivia Night at some bar and there had been a category on recently-deceased filmmaker John Hughes. No slouch in the area of John Hughes knowledge herself—she has The Breakfast Club T-shirt to prove it—she had called me for help with a question about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. “Who was ...

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