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Film director, John Hughes, has pulled a J D Salinger and retreated from Hollywoodland. (There is a good article about this in todays LA Times.) He apparently has decided to forgo showbidness for a while. He is "hiding" in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Funny but I loved his movies and my lovely bride hated each and every one! She said that "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" made teachers look stoopid. I said that it made stoopid teachers look stoopid. All I got was "the look."


SSS, any enlightenment on this subject?

I really like his movies.

He pretty much already had. He hasn't been heard from in five years until Drillbit Taylor, and he just wrote the story for that. He probably had more money than God and doesn't need to work, but he's gotten burned out too.

ne1410s wrote:Film director, John Hughes, has pulled a J D Salinger and retreated from Hollywoodland. (There is a good article about this in todays LA Times.) He apparently has decided to forgo showbidness for a while. He is "hiding" in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Funny but I loved his movies and my lovely bride hated each and every one! She said that "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" made teachers look stoopid. I said that it made stoopid teachers look stoopid. All I got was "the look."


SSS, any enlightenment on this subject?

I wasn't aware he had "retired." People always seem surprised when an actor/director does something like this. However, if you invest your money well and are willing to live in a reasonably modest lifestyle, you can retire at a fairly young age. Someone like Hughes can probably live comfortably just on the residuals from DVD rights to his movies. A lot of people in Hollywood resent Daniel Day-Lewis because he's been content to do his own thing and maintain a low profile until he gets a script that really appeals to him.

Hughes under a pen name is credited with the story for Drillbit Taylor, which means that someone optioned a screenplay that he once wrote. This project could have been sitting in limbo for a decade, and I doubt Hughes has had any creative input into the actual filmmaking. My guess is that Hughes' original screenplay bears very little resemblance to the finished movie, which plays like a cross between My Bodyguard (complete with a very clever cameo by Adam Baldwin) and Superbad (the three main juvenile characters in this movie are almost literally younger versions of the three main characters in Superbad).