tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476683704541302842.post1027654917259612626..comments2023-12-14T05:49:13.681-08:00Comments on Madame Lamb: sweet bard of the youthMadame Lambhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323618744490046763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476683704541302842.post-90758032634509756702010-02-18T13:48:10.671-08:002010-02-18T13:48:10.671-08:00Very creative stuff here! I dig it :)Very creative stuff here! I dig it :)Blancodeviosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08456570013880164694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476683704541302842.post-52512040505721756162010-02-18T12:28:41.894-08:002010-02-18T12:28:41.894-08:00An interesting collection, and Kamp clearly admire...An interesting collection, and Kamp clearly admires his subject, but a lot is left out. To read this article, you'd think Hughes had gone into some kind of nobly monastic, Salingerian seclusion after 1990, leaving a perfect string of zeitgeist-encapsulating paeans to youth and innocence as his sole legacy. No mention is made, for instance, of the fact that he continued to pitch movies under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes (like the insulting and borderline-racist J-Lo vehicle "Maid in Manhattan" and 2008's abysmal "Drillbit Taylor"). I confess to having loved his movies when I saw them as a child and an adolescent, but I certainly don't think the man a saint of the cinema. The Onion A.V. Club did a terrific job with their roundtable retrospective, "Last Thoughts on John Hughes."<br /><br />http://www.avclub.com/articles/last-thoughts-on-john-hughes,31509Tom Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437317613827205123noreply@blogger.com