Things I Learned from Molly Ringwald’s Tweets

Molly Ringwald on Twitter

Like so many child star­lets and b-list celebs before her,  Molly Ring­wald has joined Twit­ter. You might remem­ber her from The Break­fast Club , Pretty in Pink , Six­teen Can­dles , For Keeps , Fresh Horses –all required view­ing for chil­dren of the ‘80s.  Or per­haps Some­thing to Live For: The Ali­son Gertz Story  was more your cup of tea (a cup of tea with AIDS in it, that is).

One of the things I love most about Twit­ter is how close it makes me feel to irrel­e­vant celebri­ties. Not to say that Molly Ring­wald isn’t rel­e­vant to any­one; she’s cer­tainly rel­e­vant to me and the mil­lions of other fin­ger­less glove-wearing mem­bers of the John Hughes gen­er­a­tion that wor­shiped every shock­ingly pink out­fit she ever wore. It’s just that Twit­ter has a way of shin­ing the spot­light back on for­got­ten stars and rekin­dling pub­lic inter­est in their once glit­ter­ing lives and careers. It’s kind of the mod­ern, social media equiv­a­lent of those “Where Are They Now?” arti­cles except way bet­ter because now we get to absorb every mun­dane detail of their daily lives.

Like this tweet, for example:

Aw, you’re wel­come Molls! (I like to call her that.)  And I want to thank you for car­ing enough about what inter­ests me to edit your tweet­ing habits accord­ingly.  Oth­er­wise I might have unfol­lowed and never got­ten to know these awe­somely geeky things about you:

Molly Ring­wald is a Secret Red­dit Lurker

Molly Ring­wald Refers to Her­self in Third Person

Molly Ring­wald is Addicted to Fruit Ninja

Molly Ring­wald is a Fan of LOST & Game of Thrones

Molly Ringwald’s Kids are Adorkable

And they have cool names like Mathilda.

Molly Ring­wald Likes Avatar & The Leg­end of Korra

Shut the front door! Molly Ring­wald likes  The Leg­end of Korra ?! I can feel my girl­crush from the ‘80s com­ing back, except now it’s more like a mom­crush where I imag­ine Molly Ring­wald is my mom and she makes me watch all her Brat Pack movies while braid­ing my hair and feed­ing me fresh cut veg­eta­bles from her garden.

Who cares what Molly Ring­wald thinks anyway?

I do. I care!

In a per­fect world John Hughes would still be alive and mak­ing amaz­ing films for Molly Ring­wald to star in–like a  Break­fast Club sequel . But for now I’m just happy know­ing that Molly Ring­wald is still cool and beau­ti­ful, lives an idyl­lic life and loves to tweet about it. It’s every­thing Claire Stan­dish would have wanted.

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