Following the success of Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, filmmaker John Hughes explored teen angst once again, with Pretty in Pink. Premiering on the U.S.A. on January 29, 1986, screenwriter John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) showed he continued to have his finger on the pulse of that era’s youth. Not afraid to showcase the difficulties of growing up in the “Me Generation,” where
Released in 1977, Star Wars turned Mark Hamill into one of the biggest movie stars in the world. His character Luke Skywalker, graced lunch boxes, trading cards, t-shirts and more. Anxious to avoid typecasting, in 1978 Hamill appeared in Corvette Summer, co-starring Annie Potts (Toy Story) in her first film role. Not a box office failure per se–the film took in $36 million against a
“Carlene, I don’t think you’re quite gettin’ it, so let me explain: Our lives are over. We have lost everything. There is nothing left; just ashes.” – Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women, wrote that line, which is part of “Of Human Bondage,” the first episode of this seventh and final season. Thomason and this company of actresses in once-great roles,
What a treat, and what a relief! Designing Women: 20 Timeless Episodes, another pleasant release from Shout! Factory, judiciously ignores seasons 6 and 7, likely because the former was only just released on DVD early last month, and the latter is being released in mid-July. But there’s only so much pain one can endure in essentially the end of Designing Women at the end of
When Aaron Sorkin created Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, producing what was truly one of the best pilots in television history, he should have studied television history in the early ‘90s from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women. Not long after its debut, Studio 60 devolved into the characters becoming mouthpieces for whatever Sorkin was ticked about, that he just had to rant about
Shout Factory | 1987 | 540 mins. | Not Rated Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Designing Women was one of my favorite shows of the late eighties, early nineties. Centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia, the show was most definitely a comedy but was never afraid to deal with a