'Can I still borrow your underpants?'
Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald met up at the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Warren Beatty a few weeks ago in Hollywood. No telling if they chatted about a possible "Sixteen Candles" sequel, something Molly has been talking up for years now.
"It was something that I definitely wanted to do, but John Hughes wasn't interested, and I didn't feel comfortable doing it without his involvement," she recently told the media. "If we can get John to agree, I think it would be great. ... To me, the movie is '80s perfection."
Speaking of Molly, she's back in the spotlight again these days. And not for her signature red hair, film roles or enduring label as the "freckled face of the 80s" -- it's for a new reputation: Fashion diva.
The Los Angeles Times recently profiled Molly on the eve of her debut on TV's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." In it, the writer follows Molly on a shopping trip during her return to L.A.
"I never thought of myself as a style icon," Ringwald tells the Times. "I wore all that vintage because my parents kept me on an allowance ... My style was based on necessity."
With the return of 80s nostalgia and fashion -- along with an economic recession -- we'll all be "going vintage" again. (Click here to read the full article.)
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Hey,i meant what i said! She does looks good.
Posted by: Miguel | July 03, 2008 at 12:14 PM
AMH... is... SPARTACUS!
Posted by: jane | July 03, 2008 at 12:12 PM
I am a Golden God,John!
Posted by: Miguel | July 03, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Wow, Ms Ringwald, still babelicious after all these years !!!
Not sure if a sequel to 16 Candles would work, the original is too complete (a la Ferris Bueller). Breakfast Club, however, has more possibilities ...
Posted by: Mike Frazer | July 03, 2008 at 05:01 AM
Yeah Miguel practices the Yoga move of inserting foot and then removing it all in one swift action!
Posted by: John Hays | July 03, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Nice save, Miguel.
Posted by: Marissa | July 03, 2008 at 12:08 AM
DoctorDrew, just add a little prosthetic dimple, and
AMH is ready for a Douglas biopic!
Posted by: Rick in Scottsdale | July 02, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Marissa, you always make me laugh out loud.
Universal owns SIXTEEN CANDLES, but Ringwald and Hughes were very good friends. Unless he gives his blessing, she clearly wouldn't
do it.
But this is one writer who would be happy, ecstatic, overjoyed, and honored to fill in for him on another sequel. I know I could come up with something as strong as my Ferris sequel...
The wheels are already turning, Steve.
Posted by: Rick in Scottsdale | July 02, 2008 at 11:38 PM
She can't be in too bad of shape, since she just did the run of Sweet Charity last year. Unfortunately by the time it reached Dallas, she'd been replaced with Paige Davis from Trading Spaces, who was also quite good.
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Good one Big Tex.I actually googled to see if she was pregnant or something,but apparently no.Then again women don´t have to be skinny to look good.She looks healthier than all those top models who could really use a sandwich!
Posted by: Miguel | July 02, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Looks like Molly needs to step away from the buffet, but then again, so do I.
Good call, DoctorDrew, with the Kirk Douglas. Spot on!
Posted by: Big Tex | July 02, 2008 at 10:05 PM
All this debate over Anthony Michael Hall aging well or not. What's the problem? I'd go there.
Posted by: Marissa | July 02, 2008 at 07:59 PM
I still say it's just a bad picture, Drew. I just photographed a film festival a few months ago, and it's REALLY easy to get bad photos at events like that, with poor lighting, a photographer not adjusting for it, etc...
Bottom line, you'll be able to see firsthand what he looks like when Dark Knight comes out, since he's in it.
In fact, here's a bit of online viral marketing with our own AMH:
http://www.gothamcablenews.com/
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 07:28 PM
Is it just me, or has Anthony Michael Hall devolved into one of those actors with only one facial expression?
Posted by: Jeff from Vegas | July 02, 2008 at 06:08 PM
Well, if they wanted to make a Sixteen Candles sequel, they could cast Molly as a mother with her own soon-to-be sixteen daughter.
However, I still think it would be a tough movie to do. The world is not the same as it was back then. The jokes wouldn't play out as well.
Posted by: Jeff from Vegas | July 02, 2008 at 06:07 PM
Thank you so much for that pic!
I've always been a huge huge fan of Anthony Michael Hall's '80s work. And also I never understood that whole "Bender is hot" thing. IMO Claire should have ended up with Brian. Wrong movie I know but whatever.
It's just great to see these two in the same picture. And to think they dated for a while back in the day. *collective awww*
Posted by: MarieElaine (a Molly/AMH shipper) | July 02, 2008 at 05:49 PM
Wow, that doesn't even look like the same guy John.
I still say he looks like Kirk Douglas because the picture above has less chance of being altered or touched up.
Posted by: DoctorDrew | July 02, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Sixteen Candles down the drain!! Actually I think they both look decent. I was never really attracted to Molly Ringwald to start off with so there isn't much she can do at this point to win me over. Wouldn't John Hughes have to sign off on a sequel to "Sixteen Candles"? I don't think he would ever do that, and they really can't find him anyways.
Posted by: Neil | July 02, 2008 at 05:30 PM
Here's another image:
http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/5/55/Anthony-michael-hall.jpg
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 05:27 PM
John,
Seriously he looks like Kirk Douglas in that picture!
Posted by: DoctorDrew | July 02, 2008 at 05:25 PM
Bassnote - why do you say that? He looks decent enough in Dead Zone. In fact, he almost looks like he's either worked out 24/7 since Breakfast Club or got a little "help".
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 05:22 PM
Anthony Michael Hall has not aged very well.
Posted by: Bassnote | July 02, 2008 at 05:17 PM
There's one major reason they won't be making a sequel to Sixteen candles. It's pure power politics. I'm telling you. Games, Jake. Silly torturous games.
Posted by: DoctorDrew | July 02, 2008 at 04:41 PM
Hollywood execs should just leave Sixteen Candles where it belongs,in the 80s.As Molly Ringwald says it`s 80s perfection,so we should enjoy it for that.Sixteen Candles on our days?I don`t think it would work.With the caracters in their mid life,not the best idea.
Posted by: Miguel | July 02, 2008 at 04:34 PM
I don´t think he would be able to borrow her underpants now.His face in the photo shows that he would love to do so,but she doesn´t seem into it.I don´t know how could a Sixteen Candles sequel work! It was all about her sixteen birthday,blowing her sixteen candles.What would she blow in the sequel?......Hmm,her forty candles?
Posted by: Miguel | July 02, 2008 at 04:28 PM
24 years later and Farmer Ted still looks way out of Sam's league.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | July 02, 2008 at 04:14 PM