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- Conquer The World
How many countries have you visited?
- Spend Bill Gates
Spend Bill Gates' Money $100,000,000,000. Big Mac
- Paper
An interactive visualization of what happens if you keep...
- Baby Map
A map visualization of where babies are being born.
- Life Checklist
A checklist for the average human life. How many items have...
- The Deep Sea
An interactive page that lets you scroll down the ocean....
- Who Was Alive
View history in a new way
- Universe Forecast
See what the future of the universe will look like. Scroll...
- Conquer The World
- It Was Inspired by John Hughes’s Own Hellish Trip from New York City to Chicago.
- Howard Deutch Was Supposed to Direct it.
- Steve Martin Thought The Script Was Too Long.
- Hughes Acted Out The Entire Script to A Publicist Hoping to Work on The Movie.
- John Candy Arrived with Lots of Exercise Equipment in Tow.
- A Series of Production Delays Were Beneficial to One Actor.
- Edie McClurg’s Improvisations Impressed Hughes.
- A Future Hughes Movie Made A Cameo—Along with Kevin Bacon.
- A Scene in A Strip Club Was Cut from The Movie.
- Jeri Ryan Was Cut from The Movie, But Her Scene Wasn’T.
Before he became a filmmaker, Hughes worked as a copywriter for the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago. One day he had an 11 a.m. presentation scheduled in New York City on a Wednesday, and planned to return home on a 5 p.m. flight that same evening. Winter winds forced all flights to Chicago to be canceled that night, so he stayed in a hote...
Howard Deutch directed some of Hughes’s most beloved screenplays, including Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful. And he was going to direct Planes, Trains and Automobiles, too. But Hughes decided to direct the film himself once Martin signed on. Deutch directed Hughes’s script for 1988’s The Great Outdoors(also starring Candy) instead.
The comedian, who had written his own screenplays, thought the 145-page length of the script was a lot for a comedy. When Martin asked Hughes where he thought they might cut scenes, Hughes was confused by the question. Martin later claimed that the first cut of Planes, Trains and Automobileswas four-and-a-half hours long.
Reid Rosefelt met with Hughes to interview for the unit publicist position on Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Though he didn’t get the job, Rosefelt later wrote about the experience on his blog, saying it was strange but admirable that Hughes did not allow Rosefelt to see the script to the movie beforehand. As the two grew more comfortable with one...
On the first day of shooting, the crew brought in treadmills, weights, and other exercise equipment for Candy to use in his hotel suite. Martin saidCandy “never went near any of it once.”
In John Hughes: A Life in Film, Kirk Honeycutt wrote that one actor, who played a truck driver, was only supposed to have a single line in the movie that would require just one day of work. Hughes chose to keep him on standby as the production faced delays, and the actor ended up working enough days while the crew waited for the snow to come that h...
McClurg—who is probably best known as Grace, Principal Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—played the St. Louis car rental employee upon whom Neal dropped 18 F-bombs. For the first few takes, McClurg simply raised her finger and had a standard phone conversation with a customer. Then Hughes told her to improvise talking on the phone abou...
In the scene that goes back and forth between Neal trying to sleep next to Del clearing his sinuses and Neal’s wife (Laila Robins) watching TV alone in their bed, she is somehow watching She’s Having a Baby, which wouldn’t be released in theaters until February of the following year. Kevin Bacon stars in that movie, and made a cameo in Planes, Trai...
After their car blew up, Neal and Del went inside a strip club to use a phone, where Del got distracted by the dancers. Actress Debra Lamb didn’t know that her scene was cut until she went to a screening.
Future Star Trek: Voyager star Jeri Ryan made her acting debut in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. She was one of the passengers on the bus ride and couldn’t help but laughat Martin and Candy’s antics—so Hughes re-shot the scenes ... without her.
- Roger Cormier
Overview. An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
Susan Page : You shared a motel room with a complete stranger? Are you crazy? Neal : Not yet. But I'm getting there.
Neil Philip Page (born 17 January 1944) is a former Australian baseball representative. A left-hand starting pitcher, he regularly played for Australia from 1964 until 1977. Career. Page was born in Adelaide, the son of Roy Page, a well-known local baseball identity.
Neal Page. 1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Photo Credit: Everett Collection. Character Analysis. (Avoiding Spoilers) Overview... a stern businessman on the road home from New York to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Neal couldn’t have worse luck.
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Neil Page – Director of Music (January 1986 – May 2007) Having given twenty-one years of tireless and inspirational conducting, training and encouragement to the choir, Neil Page retired at the end of the 2006-2007 season.
