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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Paul Rudd Did a Reenactment of 'Sixteen Candles' for VH1 That Never Aired

by | March 12th, 2013

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd are currently in the midst of promoting their new movie Admission, and they ended up reminiscing to Collider about how they first met – in 2004 filming a special for VH1 called Soundtracks Live that never aired. The special was based on a show at the UCB Theatre in New York that Amy Miles and Amy Poehler ran, in which actors would reenact a movie live on stage while a band played the soundtrack. Here's a bit from the interview, in which Fey and Rudd discuss their reenactment of John Hughes's Sixteen Candles:

Fey: The show came out great and … they just [...]

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The Lost Projects of John Hughes

by | July 12th, 2012

One of the most prolific comedy filmmakers of all-time, you can’t really compare John Hughes’s dominance of big screen comedy in the 1980s to the work of anyone modern. Even Judd Apatow, who’s pumped out hit films at a consistent rate for the better part of the last decade, doesn’t work as fast as Hughes, who was cranking out two or even three popular comedies a year throughout his 80s heyday, with many of these films going on to become iconic classics.

Part of the reason John Hughes was able to rapidly pile up projects is that he was an incredibly fast writer who didn’t care much for rewriting. [...]

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