Did you know that Molly Ringwald has, in fact, been keeping herself mighty busy since her ’80s days as John Hughes’ muse and star of the most iconic teen movies of all time? In fact, she moved to France and did more movies there, got married, got divorced, wrote two books, did more movies and TV, got married again, had three kids, and now…
- Hussein Katz
She’s a singer! A jazz singer. Which isn’t as strange as it might seem when you consider that her father was a (blind) jazz pianist. According to “someone on Twitter,” her voice sounds like “a dessert.” She released the album Except Sometimes in April, and is touring behind it, including a performance at the Newmark on September 27. So how is it going? Well, according to this review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which the critic imagines Hughes giving her notes throughout her set and banter, things are a little shaky:
Ringwald: “How’s everybody’s dinner? Their food is very good. I had a salmon sandwich.”
Hughes: Who wrote this script? And when you introduced one song as “this is track 9 on the CD,” hello? Please say something intelligent, something that’s as classy and fitting as your black cocktail dress.
Hm. Well, curiosity and nostalgia are certainly a potent combination when it comes to selling tickets. Which might have something to do with her album including a cover of “Don’t You (Forget About Me).”
I don’t think I feel so good about this.
Nice to see the classic jazz ensemble “Simple Minds” getting some respect. BUT WHAT ABOUT TOMMY TUTONE?
Molly always seems to bring about feelings of nostalgia for me, I must admit. Likely just longing for my own youth again somehow I suppose….
But she did occupy this space of the ‘idealistic young bright woman’ for me for awhile… at least until that girl in Whit Stillmans “Metropolitan” came along and made me re-think my own version of smart, caring and sincere girl in film.
I wish Molly all the best.