Written by Eve Babitz (published around the time Sixteen Candles was released)

...John Hughes is thirty four, has written "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Mr. Mom", and written and directed "Sixteen Candles" and next year's "The Breakfast Club", starring Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy. He has, for all intents and purposes, become a part of Hollywood but insists on living in his home just outside of Chicago claiming, "I live here because I live here. It's where I'm from. I like the Midwest a lot. People here have no idea what I do -- they think I don't have a job because I'm home all day writing." Hughes began life as an art major in college but left to become a poet and finally wound up working for National Lampoon. "What I learned at the Lampoon was to be completely honest. It was very liberating."

"Sixteen Candles" is a movie about a teenage girl (Molly Ringwald) holding out for true love. "It was really a portrait of myself," Hughes says. "But I told it from the girl's point of view because of the embarrassment."