“I get a tremendous amount of mail from kids about the movies,” he said, between 3,000 and 4,000 letters about 'The Breakfast Club' alone.
That was in 1986, in an interview with the New York Times. Thousands of letters and John Hughes was a sprightly 36, The Breakfast Club was only a year old, and Pretty in Pink had just opened. Three months later, Ferri…
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