As the end credits rolled Molly headed off into a Hollywood happy ending and I headed off to university. Occasionally Molly Ringwald articles appeared over the years usually along the lines of 'what ever happened to?' it was quietly reassuring to know that she was ok and hadn't done a Winnona
Then last year posters went up on the tube, articles appeared in the Sunday papers Molly Ringwald was in London starring in When Harry Met Sally. For a split second I actually wanted to rush out a buy a ticket but then then doubts kicked in... apart from the fact that I'm not a big fan of When Harry Met Sally I realised that I really didn't want to see an older version of Molly.
Call it a bad case of nostalgia, but school crushes really should stay in school. For me Molly Ringwald will always be Pretty In Pink rather than really on stage. Talk of reunions and remakes worries me: it's good to know everyone is alive and well, but any attempt to recapture the past is likely to end in tears. I will obviously watch the DVDs with pleasure but they are post cards from the past, happy memories but not a place to stay too long. Good luck to you Molly, I'll keep an eye out for you and hope you are never tempted to make the ladies who lunch club or thirty nine candles.
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Doing a Winnona - that's taking a handful of Percocet and Xanax and going shoplifting, but really, we should go easy on her. Is there any other way to shop?
Excuse me, could you please point me to the "Too Early to Tell" blog. I seem to have stumbled upon Mollyworld by mistake.
Ah but in the world where it is too early to tell Dan, who knows how the seemingly obscure career trajectory of Ms Ringwold will be judged... was her very obscurity itself a cover for her affair with a President, the Great American Novel she was writing, the future scientist she was bearing... or just because she had a crap agent? Only time will tell...
Mmm, come to think of it, didn't Larry Niven write books about Mollyworld. Or was that Ringwold?
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