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of the school. I wasn't a fraternity type.
And I had a knack for attracting hostile authority figures. I mean, during the Revolutionary War I would have been over at Tom Payne's house saying, 'Hey, let's get some boats, cross the Atlantic and make them live under US for a while.' "Finally, after two or three and a half years, Hughes got a belly full of academia and, on hearing John Lennon's 'Waking Class Hero,' decided to head back home.
Conditions did not improve immediately "Nancy and I—she was 20, I was only $11 of a month. The rent was only $11 of a month. But, we couldn't make it and ended up living in my parents' basement for eight months." but things got better. After failing the "writing tests" of half the ad agencies in Chicago, he got a job at Leo Burnett where he finally found a niche.
I went to work in the day and came home in the dark I started at 8,500 a year, doubled my salary within six months and doubled it again a year after that. I just kept eating up bosses. One time the guy above me did an ad the company didn't like. I asked for a shot at it and stayed up all night doing six variations on the idea I had. They liked one and, the next thing I knew, I had his job 1 was a creative office at 25 or 26.
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So, has success changed John Hughes?
Evidently not much. Hughes still spends as much time as possible back home in Chicago. "I still own a house there. I just put a new roof on it, so if there are wins living there while I'm gone, they won't get wet. I don't mix much socially out here. I've only gone to two so called 'Hollywood' parties in my life, one because P.) O'Rourke made me, and the other because it was an MTV premiere for Pretty in Pink"
Big Money doesn't seem to interest him either. "I've got a business manager I haven't seen in a year and a half, basically. I know I'm better off now because I can afford to buy loss more records."
Above: As the class-cutting lead in *Ferris Beauler's Day Off*, Matthew Broderick indulges in some serious relaxation. Hughes describes his film about the high schooler's day on the run as "about personal freedom," and "a change in reality. If you've ever stayed home from school or work for reasons other than being sick, you realize how different the world looks."
But what about the future? "I'd like to have a building, my own operation. I'm not that nuts about movie lots." I'd like to write a book, maybe a novel, but I don't think I mastered that. I love to do some 9,000 page thing.
"Right now I'm making two movies a year with very direct involvement. But I could do three a year, produce two and direct one. The thing is, I've got a million ideas. It's choosing those ones to execute that's tough."
I've also another film scheduled to start shooting this summer, *Some Kind of Wonderful*. It's a college, my first foray into college. It is about the difference between the first year and the last, the struggle for dignity and identity.
Left: Annie Potsa, who stars as a funky record store manager, relieves some of her senior prom memories with Moly Ringweld in Pretty In Blue. Below: Andrew McCarthy (Left with Pretty in Pink coats) with Moly Ringweld and John Cyerj plays the 'rich kid' rich inspired by a real-life Haghes high school classmate who parked his Alta "outside at the top down in the rain. I would walk by and see the rosewood buckling on the dash."
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