On Tuesday's episode of Monica Lewinsky's "Reclaiming" podcast, the actress said she now finds it "a little peculiar" that her headshot was the inspiration behind Hughes writing the 1984 coming-of-age ...

Not only did he direct some of the most beloved movies of the era, like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but he also wrote many more.

Molly Ringwald reflected on being a muse for late writer-director John Hughes in his 1980s comedies while she was a teenager.

Technology and picture-wise, Sixteen Candles holds up as well as any of the other classic movies of the decade do ... which has become one of the funniest quotes from a Hughes film.