"Sixteen Candles" is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The movie follows Samantha Baker on her 16th birthday, starting with her parents forgetting her big day, as they are busy preparing for her older ...

Thomas Rhett's "Sixteen" is an exceptionally well-written song that takes a potentially familiar theme and turns it around in the most unexpected way. The newly-released instant grat track from ...

Few filmmakers had as much of an impact on '80s pop culture as John Hughes. Sixteen Candles, his 1984 directorial debut, was the film and cast that started it all, introducing the world to the ...

Casting director Jackie Burch gave an interview on the new Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Sixteen Candles. She told the story of Mortensen’s audition and why she cast Michael Schoeffling instead. When ...

In the months that have followed the demise of Harvey Weinstein and other abusers and the rise of #MeToo, many artists have publicly reconsidered past works and behaviors through a new, more critical ...

"It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because there wasn’t really anything out there for Asian actors at the time," Watanabe said. “Sixteen Candles” actor Gedde Watanabe says it ...

Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe had a prominent role in one of the best high school movies of all time: Sixteen Candles. He made his film debut playing Long Duk Dong, who is a Chinese foreign ...