"Variety says I have more starts than MGM," said John Hughes on the phone, a little baffled by Hollywood's reflexive embrace of him as the next great director.
Being the Next Big Thing in Hollywood was not necessarily his plan.
But things weren't zipping at the National Lampoon where some of the editors resented him shuttling from the north Chicago suburbs where he lived to New York City---like Goldman's Hank Paulson would famously do a decade latter.
Wasn't the Lamp supposed to skewer pretension not bestow it in the form of two residences?
He had resentments at the Lamp too.
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