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Fresh Air

Best Of: Molly Ringwald / Busy Philipps

Fresh Air

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4.434.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Actress Molly Ringwald came to represent '80s teen angst after starring in Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. She's now in the new series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, about the high society women that Truman Capote loved and betrayed.

Also, we hear from another actor who got her start as a teen — Busy Philipps. In the '90s, she played tough girl Kim Kelly in Freaks and Geeks. Philipps' latest project is the movie musical Mean Girls where she plays a mom trying to be young and cool.

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From W.HYY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air Weekend.

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Today, actress Molly Ringwald, she became the representation

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in the 80s of Teen Anks for a generation after starring in 16 candles, the Breakfast Club and Pretty and pink. I don't like to use the word

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iconic because I feel like it's it's overused but they really are. Those films are

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really iconic. Ringwald is now in the new series feud, Capote

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versus the Swans, about the High Society women that Truman Capote loved and

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betrayed. Also, we'll hear from another actor who got her start as a teen,

0:54.0

busy Phillips. In the 90s, she played tough girl Kim Kelly and Freaks and Geeks.

0:59.0

Phillips' latest project is the movie Musical Mean Girls, where she plays a mom trying to be young and cool.

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I am cool and people think I'm cool. By the way, I am famous.

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But you are just never cool to your kids, ever.

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That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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