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For all enthusiasts of John Hughes and his reach videos, such as National Lampoon's Getaway, Sixteen Candles, and Home Alone, comes Jason Diamond's hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the iconic filmmaker's videos - a preoccupation that eventually convinces Gemstone he should write Hughes' biography and happen to be New York City on a search that is as funny as it is hopeless. For so long as Jason Gemstone can bear in mind, he's been infatuated with John Hughes' videos. From outrageous, raunchy antics in National Lampoon's Getaway to the teenage angst in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink to the insanely smart and memorable Home Alone, Jason could not get enough of Hughes' videos. So the seed was planted in his mind's eye that it should show up to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn't subject to Jason that he had no skills, training, background, system, or way. Thus travelled the years-long delusional, earnest, and assiduous search to attain his goal. But no booklet came out of these years, and no booklet will. What he performed get was a tale that fills the minutes of the unconventional, hilarious memoir. In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells what sort of Jewish youngster from a destroyed home in a Chicago suburb - sometimes homeless, always restless - found comfort and connection in the likewise destroyed lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes' oeuvre. He shifted to NY to become writer. He began to write a booklet he had no business writing. For the time being he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake cafes. All the while he watched John Hughes videos religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been left behind, Jason has learned he is a writer through and through. As well as the adversity of going for broke has now been altered into wisdom. Or, at least, an extremely, really good account. Quite simply this is a memoir of growing up. One part big goal, one part big failing, one part John Hughes videos, one part Chicago, and one part NY. It's a tale of what employs the "go for it!" part of the demand to young creatives to go after their dreams - no subject how absurd they might seem initially.
