tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post6253908629212947343..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: John Hughes; LettersEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-82842530963504099482008-03-26T11:11:00.000-07:002008-03-26T11:11:00.000-07:00John Hughes was already a big deal among my 9th-Gr...John Hughes was already a big deal among my 9th-Grade peers, before he ever got to do anything in film, for his NATIONAL LAMPOON writing, most notably "My Vagina" (wherein a teen boy awakens one morning with the Wrong genitalia, and what befalls him).<BR/><BR/>What I noted about his films, versus those of his less commercially-successful peers (see HEATHERS, RIVER'S EDGE, or PUMP UP THE VOLUME), is that his were all about how the outsiders always wanted to be just like the Popular Kids, but just couldn't, till the PK help them to do so, while admitting their own, the PK's, insecurities and unmet desires. So, everyone is reassured that mediocrity is what we should strive for. And, certainly, few films are more enervatingly mediocre than PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-28201010008951450262008-03-26T10:10:00.000-07:002008-03-26T10:10:00.000-07:00Ed,Didn't Stark House reissue a couple of her nove...Ed,<BR/><BR/>Didn't Stark House reissue a couple of her novels? I remember reading them last year, but it could've been a different pub. I was very impressed with her writing.<BR/><BR/>Ed LynskeyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-64296255652662627552008-03-25T14:31:00.000-07:002008-03-25T14:31:00.000-07:00Ed, I share your enthusiasm for Margaret Millar. S...Ed, I share your enthusiasm for Margaret Millar. She was outstanding. I was fascinated by the way the message in A Stranger in My Grave was delivered, and I was therefore prompted to put my own spin on it in Yesterday's Papers, which was probably the most successful of all my Harry Devlin books.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.com