I'm in love with Molly Ringwald ask me anything...

[Longgrain]

Feb. 18 is Molly Ringwald's birthday. She was my first big celebrity crush...you may have had your own, if so tell me about them...

In the meantime...:loveya:

[wtmusic]

1. Those doelike eyes...those big pouty lips

wonder where she is now?

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. She was in France. She does mostly stage work now.

:hi:

[wtmusic]

7. hi MG

good to have you back! :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Thanks wt!!! It's good to be back. I'm still overwhelmed by the outpouring

of support we received. :hi:

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. Is your name Ducky?

[Longgrain]

27. I relate to Ducky far more I do that Andrew McCarthy jerk

Us unique kids never get the girl in the end...

They always go for the hunks. :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. HEY!!!! Don't call Blane a JERK...He was a nice guy. If it helps, in the

book (which I read at 15) Ducky gets the girl. Molly had them change the script. :hi:

[Longgrain]

36. He was a jerk, I only saw the movie

If I was Andie I would have dumped him on the first date...

If he was a nice guy, she was shallow...

The Duck-man was the true tragic figure of Pretty in Pink, and don't you forget it!

[baron j]

41. Is that what happened?

John Cryer was on "Dinner and a Movie" and he said the script had Ducky ending up with her, but he got food poisoning on lobster, and couldn't film the final scene. Who knows what the real case was?

Blaine was a jerk named after a major appliance.

[Longgrain]

43. I agree...Blaine was a pretty boy asshole!

Any woman with any depth to her character would first, and foremost be in love with Ducky.

(Hi and welcome to DU...:hi: )

[baron j]

74. buffy the vampire slayer was all wrong for duckie

They should have at least found a nice punky/smiths fan girl for him.

thanks for the warm welcome..

[lazarus]

55. actually

it was test audiences that caused the change in the script. Coupled with John Hughes' actual desire; he felt having her end up with Duckie could be seen as sending the message that one shouldn't "cross the tracks" in romance.

[Pale Blue Dot]

34. "Pretty In Pink" is when I began to hate John Hughes.

By "Home Alone" he was the anti-Christ. Right-wing bastard to boot.

As for Ms. Ringwald, I've never been into redheads, maybe because I am one. She's all yours. :-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. I saw Pretty In Pink in the theater 6 times, but not for Molly...

For Andrew! ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Andrew McCarthy....

:loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Funny story...My brother worked on "Night of the Running Man", a B movie

starring Andrew in the mid 1990's. Anyway, he had to call him for the producer and the producer wasn't available...so, my brother had to stall, but make it look like he wasn't stallling. Can't keep a star waiting and all that. He tells him this long story about how his sister (me) had this HUGE crush on him when she was younger and probably still did. Oy.

If you watch that film closely, my sister in law (before she and my brother were married) is in it. It's kind of like a home video. You can see them both. ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. That's a cool story!

Did your brother get you an autograph?? ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Yes, they ended up talking about ME for about 10 minutes. Imagine.

I was already somebody's wife and somebody else's mother, but it still gives me goosepimples. ;) :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. Well yeah!

:7

[Longgrain]

60. Andrew McCarthy?

Phhhhhhhfffftttt!

You're too young to recognize substance before style.

:shakes head:

[Longgrain]

40. I saw it in the theater five times...for Molly

And I still have the ticket stubs to prove it...:P

[intheflow]

42. I saw "Pretty In Pink" for Jon Cryer.

Honestly! He and I went to acting camp together as teenagers. He was and is the first person I ever knew who made it big. Naturally I don't know him any more.

[Longgrain]

44. Seriously? Cool!

:hi:

[intheflow]

59. Yeah.

It's weird seeing him on tv now. We were in "The King and I" together. He is now as he was then, kinda awkward in his own body.

The really strange thing is that his mother (who was the toast of Broadway at the time) and sister were very hip and glamorous. Yet who's starred in movies and has a tv show?

[bigwillq]

6. Do you like most girls with red hair? (nt)

[Longgrain]

23. I like Auburn...middletone red-brown

Strawberry blonde...I'm not particular.

[driver8]

48. I like that hair color, also...and I used to have a huge crush on

Molly Ringwald. It stared with "Pretty in Pink." She didn't really do much for me in "Breakfast Club"...that is kind of weird now that I think about it.

[Longgrain]

51. Being part Irish...the red-brown thing works for me...

Never been into blonds myself...

[SarahB]

8. What is it with these posts....

about all the cool people with birthdays tomorrow?

Ahem! *cough* :D

[StopTheMorans]

10. i don't know any cool people who have a birthday tomorrow

:shrug:

[SarahB]

13. Yes you do!

*cough* *cough*

:party:

[bigwillq]

16. IS it you? IS it you?

:party:

[SarahB]

20. Yep.

:D
Are you coming to Dodi's Saturday?

[bigwillq]

26. Well Happy Birthday!

:party:

Not coming to DODI's. I have to work all day. It's the start of a girls' basketball tournament so I am covering two games and then I have to go back into the office and write the stories up.



BTW, *ahem* Guess who has a b-day on the 27th of this month? *ahem*:)

[SarahB]

29. Oh poop!

Sorry I'll miss you, but happy game covering and happy birthday in a week and a half to you too! :party:

[bigwillq]

32. Funny girl!

Your subject line made me crack up!

I hope to get to a meetup soon!:hi:

[StopTheMorans]

18. Do you have a cold Sarah? can i bring you some chicken soup?

:P

[SarahB]

21. Yummy!

Soup!!! :bounce:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

14. In highschool, a guy used to call me Molly Ringwald because

he thought I looked like her (same sort of haircut she had back then and dyed my hair). Still is red, though I don't think I look like her (I have green eyes. Does she?).

[Pale Blue Dot]

24. Should I be wishing you happy birthday, Sarah?

Happy birthday! :party:

[SarahB]

25. In an hour and 25 minutes anyway.

Thanks. :)

[NightTrain]

9. Is she still in show business?

Haven't heard a thing about Molly Ringwald in at least 15 years.

[Longgrain]

30. Sort of...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307596/

[tridim]

12. I had a crush on Sam from "Gimme a Break"

and Justine Bateman a bit later.. Oddly, I found them in the same photo. :)

[Longgrain]

47. Molly made her T.V. Debut on Facts of Life

The infamous first season, before they got rid of half the cast.

[driver8]

50. That is so funny -- I had a thing for Justine Bateman and always

thought "Sam" was going to be a hottie when she got older...I was right. She blossomed into a very attractive girl.

[tridim]

53. What's really funny.. My first semi-real girlfriend

looked exactly like her, my dad even called her "Sam". Puppy love rocked! :)

[tuvor]

28. My first celebrity crush? Easy.

Batgirl!

[Longgrain]

77. Good one...

Tho I prefer Dynagirl myself...

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[Longgrain]

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[amerikat]

67. it's will robinson dammit

[intheflow]

35. Did you see her 3-D movie with Peter Strauss?

"Spacehunter: Adventures in the forbidden Zone!"

I saw it, 3-D glasses and all, though truthfully, I left about 3/4 of the way through. It was awful.



"16 Candles" and "Breakfast Club", on the other hand, were brilliant. :hi:

[Longgrain]

37. No...but I do remember her in Tempest...

Based on the Shakespeare play...

Weird stuff at Twelve-years-old.

[Radio_Lady]

38. Looks like she has paused her career... no movies since 2003...

However, post-production is indicated on one film:

Guest of Cindy Sherman (2006) (post-production) .... Herself

Internet Movie Database link is:

http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0000208/

[Longgrain]

39. Yeah she's mostly a "has been" as far as film.

I guess she done some stage work.

The last big thing I know of that she did was a brief appearance in "Not Another Teen Movie".

[lazarus]

57. I wouldn't say "has been"

Like many actors, she's chosen the stage route. Just finished a fantastic run as Sally in "Cabaret" off-Broadway.

She also got some incredibly bad advice just as her career was ready to hit that spot where you stay on top. She turned down, in succession, the leads in "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost", and turned down the Laura Dern role in "Blue Velvet" that was written specifically for her.

Go figure.

[Bok_Tukalo]

45. Does it count that my first celebrity crush wasn't till I was in my 20's?

I've never been that into celebrity, even as an adolescent, but for some reason I cannot explain this one bowled me over when I was an adult. I think it is safe to say it is the only celebrity crush I've ever had.

[Longgrain]

46. Actually Molly wasn't my first...

She was my first...ah-hum..."adult" crush. Ya know, hormones and all.

My first "Cute" crush was probably at four years old, with....


SUSAN DEY!!!

[Longgrain]

52. It's offically Feb. 18 where I am so.....

HAPPY B'AY MOLLY!!!

:bounce:

[RevolutionaryActs]

54. Must I admit my first celebrity crush?.........

x(

[Longgrain]

56. What was his intials...

LG purhaps....:evilgrin:

[RevolutionaryActs]

61. LOL!! No....

LG isn't a celebrity.... :P

Well my first crush was when I was about 10/11 and it Leo DeCaprio... but not in Titanic time, it was shortly before.
At that time I liked to watch reruns of Growing Pains on Disney. He was on that show when he was younger.
So I had a crush on him... then a while later Titanic came out and then EVERYONE loved him. So I was like.. eff that. :)

[Longgrain]

62. I'm too old too have a crush on...

RA4...

RA4? that sort of sounds like a robot, or a car.

I've really got to go to bed...

[RevolutionaryActs]

63. RA4 LOL

Just stick with Rev... :P

[Longgrain]

64. Ah? Then...

Why didn't you just choose "Rev" as your screen name in the fist place?

:shrug:

I mean, no one calls me Lon?

:7

[RevolutionaryActs]

65. Because.....

I didn't know I would make so many friends. :)

[Longgrain]

66. Neither did I...

G'nite kid...:hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

68. hehe Goodnight!

:hug: :*

[lazarus]

58. Molly is still my crush

She's my one "exception" in the relationship.

For weirdness' sake: My first wife was a dead ringer for Molly. And she hated it. Easiest way to piss her off was to call her Molly.

Years and years later, I noticed something interesting. Tomorrow would be our anniversary. :evilgrin:

[Longgrain]

71. Weird about the anniversary thing

<<wife was a dead ringer for Molly>>

Lucky...

[lazarus]

72. sadly

it was just physical resemblence. She was also evil incarnate.

The devil worshipped her.

[ralps]

69. I would say my first celebrity crush was Paul McCartney. But you all have

to consider that I was 8 or 9 at the time and this was 1963 or 1964. I can't remember when they came to Milwaukee.
:hi:

[Longgrain]

70. Hi and G'nite ralps...

We all have our first crushes...don't we?

[vajraroshana]

73. I finally watched Pretty in Pink the other night

Molly was the only thing good about that movie.

I'm 39 and that thing has been playing on reruns forever. I figured it must be good to be around so long; but I really thought it sucked.

Molly was great though.

Molly is always great!

[Pert_UK]

75. Wally Ring-Mould, surely?

:evilgrin:

To be honest, I fancied her rotten all through my formative years, ever since having watched the Breakfast Club when I was about 12.....

P.

[hfojvt]

76. How old is the Ringster?

My first crush was probably Cher. Those dresses were something.

[BigMcLargehuge]

78. Mrs. McLargehuge is a dead ringer for Ms. Ringwald

I didn't really realize it until we came back to the US from college and I suffered through Pretty in Pink on cable. I wish I had a better picture of her to show.