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Judd Nelson: The truth about my Brat Pack past… and social media’s future
Nelson was born in Portland, Maine, to a conservative Jewish family; his father was the first Jewish president of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and his mother a former member of the Maine Dwelling of Representatives. He was barmitzvahed, but his family didn’t really keep kosher at home; “Being from Maine if we did, no lobster,” he jokes.
But it wasn’t until after he left home that he started to disburse attention to his control Jewish identity. “I didn’t really think that much about my Jewishness until I went away to prep school in Unused Hampshire at an Episcopal school and we had to go to chapel four mornings a week. It wasn’t super religious, so I didn’t ponder about it that much until I was forced to realise my differences. And then I didn’t really encounter any antisemitism until that school. I had a roommate who was really quite insane, and it wasn’t until those experiences that I learned about antisemitism, and it made me more proud to be Jewish than angry. It was like being Jewish became a good thing because idiots were attacking me for it.”
Having experienced considerable media attention in his younger year
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When she walked onto a movie set, it was love at first sight. For Pollino, a scribe, director and producer of several independent films and TV projects, it’s been a swift road to celluloid. “One day I got a call about a film,” she says. It was Out There, a flick starring indie darling Clea DuVall. A half-dozen or more projects later—including the latest movie, Regrets, with her longtime creative collaborator, Peter Patrikios—Pollino is leaving Philly for Hollywood after working for a show on Oprah’s OWN. Over the years, she’s also worked with Judd Nelson (who told her secrets about making The Breakfast Club) and Michael Madsen. “I obtain chills doing this for a living,” she says, as she gets ready to direct her first feature film this fall.
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John Bender (Judd Nelson)
Character Analysis
Bad Boy
John Bender (Judd Nelson) is a classic bad boy with a heart o' gold. He's not a bully, exactly—more like a juvenile delinquent. He gets some of the movie's most known lines, and his continual obnoxious pestering and joking kicks the whole plot into gear. He's the straw that stirs the drink—the spur, the provocateur. Bender's personality is defined by its total compulsiveness: He alternates between wisecracking and indulging his authentic anger, delving into his messed-up family life.
Bender will always sacrifice his own wellbeing for a good joke. He continually harasses the supervising lecturer, Richard Vernon, with jokes like "Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" (which has a homophobic edge to it, since Manilow's gay) and with outright insults like "Eat my shorts" and even "F*** you!" after Vernon assigns him two months' worth of extra detentions for talking back to him repeatedly. Vernon sees him as a total punk, and at one point personally threatens to beat him up once Bender's graduated—real professional, Vern.
Stand-Up Act
Sometimes his jokes are lovely funny—like when he pretends that he's going
Judd Nelson admits Brat Pack actors 'weren't liked' on St. Elmo's Fire set
Judd Nelson reveals the 'way people treated each other' on St Elmo's Flame set
Some Brat Pack members dished on stage at MegaCon about their adolescent stardom.
During a Breakfast Club reunion panel, the topic deterred over to put dynamics including that of St. Elmo's Fire. Judd Nelson explained to fans that the two sets had a massive difference. "It's not just the subject matter that's different," he said. "The way people treated each other was different."
According to Judd, who was joined by Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall on stage, it wasn't a smooth transition from the John Hughes feature to St. Elmo's Flame. He explained: "You move to the set on the Breakfast club, you're a part of it. The crews a part of it. John Hughes is a part of it. We're all in it. St. Elmo's Heat. it was not that way."
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