Ferris fans: Buy Cameron Frye's house ... for $2.3 million

"Frye ... Frye ... Frye ..." Cameron Frye doesn't live here anymore. His home from 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on the market.

A Chicago Realtor has listed 370 Beach St. in Highland Park, Ill. -- where portions of the movie were filmed -- for the paltry sum of $2.3 million. Red 1961 Ferrari 250GT California not included. (Well, it's still probably stuck in the trees.)

The house is 5,300 square feet, includes a three-car garage, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Click here to see more details and photos from inside the 1953 home, built by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid.

Ferris fans will remember the glassed-in garage, where Cameron's fate is sealed so poetically when his dad's car -- stuck in reverse to erase the mileage from their day off -- goes flying into the woods below.

Ferris director John Hughes, who reportedly still lives on Chicago's North Shore, has been told the home is for sale, but hasn't commented publicly, according to the Daily Herald.

TOP 5 MEMORABLE CAMERON FRYE LINES:

5. "I am not going to sit on my a-- as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."

4. "This is ridiculous, okay I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go."

3. "Pardon my French, but you're an a------!"

2. "Ferris Bueller, you're my hero."

1. "When Cameron was in Egypt's land ... let my Cameron go!"

Molly Ringwald, John Hughes holiday again

Two of the biggest '80s icons share a birthday today. This is your day, Molly Ringwald and John Hughes!

Hughes (59) and Ringwald (41) have maintained a mystical relationship from the start. Molly starred in three of Hughes' classics: Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. And if he'd had his way, she'd also have appeared in Some Kind of Wonderful (which went to Lea Thompson instead, despite her dreadful turn in Howard the Duck).

Still not sure? Read this 1986 article in which Molly interviewed John in Seventeen Magazine. They complete each other's sentences!

Hughes is still MIA these days; his most recent work was writing the story for 2008's Drillbit Taylor (under his pen name, Edmond Dantes). Molly's as busy as ever, currently co-starring in ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

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'The boozehounds return!'

Say what you like about "Weird Science," but it's easily one of the most quotable movies of the John Hughes era.

(Of course, it helps when you have friends like Sean Daly, who actually does wear a bra on his head from time to time. "For facial-muscular support," he swears.)

This week's Stuck in the 80s podcast will answer a lingering question: Is "Weird Science" a disappointing, goofball piece of comic trash ... or is it a guilty pleasure that celebrates a level of humor we've long since chosen to ignore, much to our own detriment?

Wait until Saturday for our well-researched and thoroughly reasonable arguments. In the meantime, help us devise a special Top 10 list for the podcast: Top 10 Memorable Quotes from Weird Science. Here are my favorites. No surprise, they're all from "Chet," who has the same haircut as me:

• "You're stewed, buttwad!"
• "The boozehounds return!"
• "He pukes, you die."
• "I'm gonna tell Mom and Dad everything. I'm even considering makin' up some s--t!"
• "How 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?"

Did Macaulay Culkin kill the '80s?

You can confess to adoring him in "Uncle Buck." You might even shamefully admit you once rented "Rocket Gibraltar" just to catch his cutesy little appearance.

But I'm here to tell you: Macaulay Culkin, who turns 28 today, is the devil and his appearance in movies basically destroyed everything we held dear about the '80s. His rise to short-lived super-stardom came at the stoke of the end of 1989. And his fall in the late '90s was karma and triggered the '80s revival.

I'm betting even John Hughes is nodding along, while sitting somewhere in the basement of his Wisconsin home, throwing copies of "Home Alone" into the furnace to cut the chill, muttering "Are you thirsty for more? Are you thirsty for more!?!" to nobody in particular.

Sleep tight, Johnny. Take solace in knowing that Culkin's real slide into evil didn't begin until he played "The Nutcracker" in '93.

TOP 5 QUOTES THAT PROVE MACAULAY CULKIN IS THE DEVIL (Or at least a very weird kid):

5. "Their dog's a ball-sniffer." (Uncle Buck)

4. "Guys, I'm eating junk and watching rubbish! You better come out and stop me!" (Home Alone)

3. "You can't marry a teacher, it's against the law." (My Girl)

2. "Bad worms." (Rocket Gibraltar)

1. "Waiting for your sex?" (Uncle Buck)

The legend of John Hughes is renewed

Welcome to the 21st century, John Hughes! Our favorite movie maestro has re-emerged, this time writing a short piece for Zoetrope All-Story about the genesis of his screenplay for "National Lampoon's Vacation."

It's an amazing piece (click here to read it), full of more personal details about his life than have been released to date. Among the gems you'll discover:

• "Vacation" was originally called "Vacation '58" and was based on a family trip from Detroit to L.A.'s Disneyland. It was written by the point of the view of "Rusty," the male child of the family.
• Hughes wrote it while he has working full-time for a Chicago advertising agency. It was intended to run in the "National Lampoon" magazine, for which he was secretly a part-time editor.
• The entire story was written by Hughes when he was snowed-in at home in Chicago in 1979.
• His story didn't have the movie's happy ending.

"I wrote the first sentence -- 'If Dad hadn't shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever!' -- and the rest was automatic," Hughes explains in his essay

Hughes' short piece is fascinating to read, a peak into the mind of someone we all can't stop admiring, and a reminder that he's lost none of his writing talent.

The preachings of ... John Hughes?

Sure, the 80s are worthy of undying adoration, but should our '80s movie icons be the subject of church sermons?

A small American Baptist congregation outside Chicago is getting weekly lessons in "The Gospel of John Hughes," according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Each Wednesday, Pastor Tripp Hudgins offers a screening of a different Hughes movie. Then each Sunday morning, he dissects the movie during church service.

For example, with "The Breakfast Club," Hudgins' message is this, according to the Sun-Times: " ''Don't You Forget About Me' says we are not forgotten. ... But everyone's forgotten on some level. Everyone's a little lost. The underlying theme is, 'I know you feel lost, but you're really not.' "

Really? That's the theme? I thought the message was that we're all deeper and more complex than the stereotypes we represent. Makes you wonder what the religious theme is of "Twist and Shout" in Ferris Bueller.

'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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Cameron Frye, you're my hero

Everyone has a theory on what made "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" so great. The irresistible Matthew Broderick. The sublime script by John Hughes. The brilliant villainy of Jeffrey Jones.

All good picks, but don't forget the always-underrated Alan Ruck as "Cameron Frye," possibly second to only Ducky Dale as best comic figure in a Hughes flick.

Ruck turns 52 years old today, making him by far the oldest "teen" cast member of "Ferris." (He was 29 years old when played the part.) Ruck and Broderick were pals back in acting school as kids, and popular legend has it that the adult voice that Ruck imitated often in Ferris -- "Mr. Peterson" -- was that of their drama class teacher.

If you think Ruck was a one-hit wonder of the 80s, surely you've forgotten his work in "Class," "Bad Boys" and "Three for the Road." (Actually, no points off if you forgot that last one.) Then there's that stretch on TV's "Spin City." He also got a lot of mileage playing a starship captain in 1994's "Star Trek: Generations."

These days, Ruck remains busy in the acting biz, playing the role of "Dean Bowman" in TV's "Greek" and making appearances in 2007's "Kickin' It Old Skool" and 2008's "The Happening."

Happy birthday, Alan. We're just glad you didn't up as a fry-cook on Venus.

TOP 5 MEMORABLE "CAMERON FRYE" LINES:

5. "I am not going to sit on my a-- as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."

4. "You just mind your P's and Q's, buster, and remember who you're dealing with!"

3. "Pardon my French, but you're an a--hole!"

2. "Ferris Bueller, you're my hero."

1. "When Cameron was in Egypt's land ... Let my Cameron go!"

The mysterious Mr. Hughes

The legacy of the godfather of the 80s -- John Hughes -- is examined closely in an article this week in the Los Angeles Times.

Hughes is back in the news because the new Owen Wilson flick "Drillbit Taylor" is based on a story that Hughes wrote back in the '80s. And even though Hughes' name reportedly doesn't appear in the credits, it was enough of a "return" to draw the industry's attention.

Click here to read the LA Times article in full. Here are some of the highlights:

• Hughes left Hollywood in 1995. He's living in seclusion with his family in either Chicago or Wisconsin, depending on who you believe.
• He grants no interviews and has no agent. Even fellow directors and writers who try to look him up while in Chicago discover he can't be found. The only actor who's met with him in recent years: Vince Vaughn during the filming of his movie "The Break Up."
• There's no consensus on why Hughes quit the movie business. The Times says, "It's possible that the filmmaker, who gave studio executives headaches when he was riding high, simply grew tired of the messy business of making movies and chose to pursue a simpler life."

With teen movies once again abusing the pre-Hughes formula of breast shots and fart jokes, wouldn't this seem like a good time for his return?

Modern-day 'Breakfast Club' gets thumbs-up

A script for a new movie called "Bumped" is being billed as "The Breakfast Club" of today's generation.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the story revolves around five "twenty-somethings" -- from different cliques, of course -- who find themselves thrown together when they're bumped from an airline flight out of Chicago.

(Nice touch keeping the Chi-town angle in there. Somewhere, John Hughes is smiling -- and scratching off Lotto tickets.)

Just like our beloved "Breakfast Club," the strangers eventually find common ground and befriend each other during the long layover. The diverse characters including a musician, a flirt and a corporate go-getter.

No actors have signed onto the project yet, but Bridget Johnson and Anna Mastro are on board to produce and direct, according to the Reporter.

FIVE FORGOTTEN LINES FROM THE BREAKFAST CLUB:

5. "Were you truly disgusted with what I did with my lipstick?"

4. "Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place."

3. "Do you think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language."

2. "I don't screw to get respect. That's the difference between you and me."

1. "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."