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He is best known as the geek in the 1980's coming of age classic "The Breakfast Club." Now 41-years-old, Michael Anthony Hall is accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend. According to a report in the New York Post, Sirius Satelite radio host Diana Falzone requested an order of protection after the Brat Pack actor allegedly tried to kick in the door of ...

The Breakfast Club star Anthony Michael Hall has been ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend after he allegedly attacked her in her New York home.

It's been a long career road since Weird Science , and even though he's always been on my personal A-List, Robert Downy Jr.

The Eastman House this month celebrates the late filmmaker John Hughes, the cinematic pied piper of adolescent America in the late '80s. Hughes virtually invented the teen film of the modern era, creating a formula of clever, cynical teens who overcame angst-ridden lives by being wittier and way ahead of their parents, teachers and other adults.

When Matt Austin Sadowski started shopping around his documentary about John Hughes, film buyers didn't think audiences would be interested in a movie about the famed teen director.

There's no mistaking horror-movie stalwart Michael Berryman. The actor suffers from a rare condition called hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, which is characterized by few or no sweat glands and lack of hair or fingernails.

Okay, suppose for a moment that the case being made by the apologists for the Nobel Committee make any sense, that they are kind of like the boys in Weird Science and the Barack Obama they honored is a Kelly LeBrock-like avatar of their own construction.

Clark and Rusty Griswold have a father-son moment in the original "Vacation" . New Line Cinema is developing a sequel, of sorts, to the 1983 comedy classic 'National Lampoon's Vacation.' This fifth 'Vacation' film would focus on Rusty Griswold, the son of Chevy Chase's Clark Griswold.

Though he retreated from Hollywood in the early 1990s to home and family in Chicago, John Hughes really never left popular culture.

I've been watching too much Hulu lately, but "Dokken does not like chicken, and wants to destroy it" needs memage.

Featuring the long lost Director's Cut! Fans can now relive this chillingly entertaining cult classic about a small college town ravaged by killer slugs from outer space as Writer/Director Fred Dekker intended, with the original ending and loaded with killer bonus features including over sixty minutes of all-new Behind-the-Scenes featurettes.

Robert Downey Jr, a two-time Oscar-nominee and one-time drug-addict, knows a thing or two about battling demons.

With TIFF in mind, and since this is a Web column, here are a few of the Internet's most notable starring roles.

When I was a young headbanger the metal scene dominated the Billboard charts - except for a young soul singer from New Jersey .

Teen life is full of mysteries, but nothing is more hilarious or more fun than Weird Science, the out-of-this-world comedy that helped define a generation! Join two socially challenged computer whizzes as they set out to create the ''perfect woman'' . Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's heavenly creation guides the pair through the ...

Teen life is full of mysteries, but nothing is more hilarious or more fun than Weird Science, the out-of-this-world comedy that helped define a generation! Join two socially challenged computer whizzes as they set out to create the ''perfect woman'' . Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's heavenly creation guides the pair through the ...

To understand the mark left by writer-director John Hughes when he died in early August, look no further than this: One of the 1980s' most influential film genres simply carries his name: the John Hughes movie.

Teen life is full of mysteries, but nothing is more hilarious or more fun than Weird Science, the out-of-this-world comedy that helped define a generation! Join two socially challenged computer whizzes as they set out to create the ''perfect woman'' . Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's heavenly creation guides the pair through the ...

Two weeks ago, I was sitting in my basement when my brother broke the news to me that John Hughes had died.

Director/screenwriter John Hughes, who died Thursday at 59, in the 1980s reinvented the "teen movie," an art form that hadn't changed much since the days of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.