THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."  BONUS: Molly Ringwald's post-MeToo re-evaluation of the films that made her career.

KEVIN MORBY plays World Cafe.

DON'T BORE US, Get To The Chorus.

SPIELBERGS share "The New Year's Resolution."

STELLA DONNELLY shares "How Was Your Day?"

MUSIC FESTIVALS 2022: A season of chaos.

TEEN PUNKS ruled NYC in the late 70s. These are their stories.

DAVE STEWART, on accidentally sparking the Traveling Wilburys, collabs with Bono and Aretha Franklin, his work with No Doubt and Katy Perry, the Eurythmics' evolution, and more.

BATGIRL: The shelved film's makers are speaking out.

HBO MAX & DISCOVERY+ are merging in Summer 2023.

JOKER 2 is teased by Lady Gaga.

PARAMOUNT+ kept hiking up the streaming mountain in the second quarter as some rivals have stumbled.

EZRA MILLER: Friends fear the 'Flash' actor has lost touch with reality as he travels the US in body armor and faces new claims of running a cult in Iceland.

QUENTIN TARANTINO reviews Top Gun: Maverick.

KEANU REEVES will star in the long-gestating adaptation of “Devil in the White City.”

MARVEL's vfx artists continue to grumble.

HOW DAVID LEITCH Became the King of Hollywood Action.

YOU CAN'T STOP HIM, you can only hope to contain him.

IT'S NOT a Two-Headed Deer, but...

FISHNADO!

LAND SHARK!

PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.

MADISON CUNNINGHAM plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

COUP DE FOUDRE: A playlist for your Summer crush.

SUEDE shares "15 Again."

PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM take doo-wop to the "Edge of the Edge."

ISSAC BROCK (Modest Mouse) covers "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN shares "Exile."

SPORTS TEAM shares "The Drop."

IS OLD MUSIC Killing New Music?

SOUNDCLOUD announced that it will be laying off roughly 20 percent of its workforce.

JOHN HUGHES' 80s SOUNDTRACKS are getting a box set.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "Thank God I Found You," the showily sappy ballad that Mariah Carey recorded with Joe and 98 Degrees.

VIN SCULLY, the voice of the Dodgers for more than six decades, whose folksy manner and melodic language made him a beloved figure in American culture, has died. He was 94.

JENNIFER COOLIDGE revealed she’s slept with 200 people due to her infamous role in the 1999 movie “American Pie.”

EDIE McCLURG, of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Planes, Trains & Authomobiles, suffers from dementia and her legal team is fighting to get a man who has been living with her out of her home.

TOM CRUISE complimented a hiker's dog before jumping off a cliff for Mission: Impossible.

HBO MAX is expected to layoff around 70 percent of their development staff.

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are signing a long-term pact with Universal.

2022: The peak of "Peak TV"?

A TORTOISE, enjoying a shower. And a bidet.

AN OTTER, getting his temperature taken.

CATS, spinning out of the turn into dinner.

ATTACK of the Venus Fly Cat.

GUARD CAT credited with preventing would-be robbery.

FATBOY SLIM: When your "Weapon of Choice" is Walken.

JEFF TWEEDY visits World Cafe.

MAPACHE covers the Everly Brothers and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings for a Lagniappe Session.

ST VINCENT puts a funky-jazzy spin on Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS share "Mark On You."

PETER BUCK & LUKE HAINES share "Psychedelic Sitar Casual."

WILL SCHEFF (Okkervil River) shares "Estrangement Zone."

FRANKIE COSMOS has a "One Night Stand."

HOT CHIP shares "Freakout/Release."

DUCKS LTD & JANE INC cover The Cure's "In Between Days."

DIANE WARREN questioned why Beyoncé has 24 writers on one song, and got stung by the Beyhive.

BATGIRL: Warner Bros. and DC Films will not be releasing the 70MM movie on any platform, including theatrically. Oof. Was this about... taxes?

DANE COOK, 50, got engaged to a 23-year-old.

BRAD PITT, walking back retirement talk.

DEV PATEL intervened in a violent altercation Monday, successfully helping to stop a knife attack.

WORKING GIRL may get a reboot with Selena Gomez.

DAVID LEITCH, on Bullet Train and Deadpool 3.

ATLANTA has a Season 4 trailer online.

THE RUSSO BROS: A Unified Theory.

A CAT, playing Jenga.

YOU SNOOZE, You Lose.

A DOGGO, hanging out with... a camel?

THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday.

GRACE CUMMINGS plays World Cafe.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features Maggie Rogers, Caterina Barbieri, Johnny Gandelsman, and more.

BILLY CORGAN joined PR0NO FOR PYROS on Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks."

2ND GRADE shares "Strung Out On You."

JOHN CALE shares "Night Crawling," with an animated video including David Bowie.

ACE OF CUPS: A pioneering all-female band is essayed at Rolling Stone.

MO OSTIN, who in his many years as the powerful chief executive of Warner Bros. Records made a point of putting the artist first, in the process encouraging the most important works of musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and Prince, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Savage Garden's second No. 1 hit, the cynically written wedding ballad "I Knew I Love You."

ANDOR, the Rogue One spin-off, has a trailer online.

NAOMI JUDD left Wynonna and Ashley out of her last will and testament.

JOHNNY DEPP v AMBER HEARD: Unsealed court docs on what was left out of the trial.

NICK OFFERMAN joins Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two.

ROCKY & DRAGO do a little shadow-boxing over a proposed spin-off.

CLERKS III is happening because Jay & Silent Bob Reboot did so well on Blu-ray and DVD.

MARILYN MONROE's ESTATE has Ana de Armas' back.

JAMES MARSDEN, on returning to Westworld.

THREE DOGS, one spatula.

DOGGOS at movie time.

DOG through the Cat door.

THERE'S HAPPY DOGS, and then there's this dog.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Amanda Shires, Florist, Beach Rats, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Of Montreal, Elizabeth Fraser's Sun Signature, Wombo, and more.

JIM SOHNS, co-founder and vocalist of the garage rock band The Shadows of Knight, died on July 29th. He was 75.

CASTANETS: Ray Rapose has died at 41.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Rising Turns 20.

GWENNO, on her Mercury nomination, new music, and if we'd ever see a reunion of The Pipettes.

THE NUMBER ONES, on Christina Aguilera's "What A Girl Wants" and the art of constructing a proper teen-pop banger.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: DC League of Super-Pets tops the chart with 23MM as we enter the Summer doldrums (even moreso post-pandemic, though it's better than having a pandemic).  Nope places with 18.6MM on a 58 percent drop that's a few points steeper than the sophomore dropoff for Jordan Peele's Us.  Thor: Love and Thunder shows with 13.MM on a 41 percent drop as it crossed 300MM domestic.

NICHELLE NICHOLS, who portrayed communications officer Uhura on the original “Star Trek” series, died Saturday night in Silver City, N.M. She was 89 years old.  Here's the Trek obit.And the NYT obit.

BILL RUSSELL, whose defensive athleticism at center changed the face of pro basketball and propelled the Boston Celtics to 11 N.B.A. championships, the final two when he became the first Black head coach in a major American sports league, died on Sunday. He was 88.

WILL SMITH is "deeply remorseful" after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.

BRITNEY SPEARS' tell-all has been delayed due to a paper shortage.

FLORENCE PUGH seems displeased with Olivia Wilde.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER's Top 10 Pefrormances, according to Variety.

TOMB RAIDER: Studios and streamers are bidding to acquire the film rights to the property that for nine years was at MGM and has now returned to producer Graham King and his GK Films.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: The crew teases an emotional threequel.

JON FAVREAU wanted a different Endgame.

MAX HEADROOM: A reboot is in development, with Matt Frewer set to reprise his role as the world’s first artificial intelligence TV personality.

MARTIN SCORSESE & LEONARDO DiCAPRIO are teaming up yet again.

COLIN FARRELL had panic attacks while filming 13 Lives.

AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON on Kraven the Hunter.

BLACK HORROR FILMS Off the Beaten Path.

PAT CARROLL, a veteran actress known for her voice role as Ursula in Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and whose career as an entertainer spanned seven decades, died Saturday in Cape Cod, Mass. while recovering from pneumonia. She was 95 years old.

PAUL COKER JR., whose character and production designs for the classic Rankin/Bass stop-motion and animated holiday specials and his many years as one of Mad magazine’s “Usual Gang Of Idiots” endeared him to generations of fans, died following a brief illness at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 23. He was 93.

A RABBIT smart enough to be Bugs Bunny.

A GROUNDHOG steals a farmer's crop and eats it in front of his security camera.

RIPKEN THE BAT DOG, hard at work.