Birth nameMichael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall Birth information14 April 1968, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA BioAnthony Michael Hall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His stepfather is a show-business manager and his mother, Mercedes Hall, is an actress-singer. His sister, Mary Christian, is also a performer. He started doing TV commercials, and his first major break came when he was cast as the young Steve Allen in Allen's semi-autobiographical play "The Wake." He came to the attention of movie audiences with his performance as the geeky, overbearing yet endearing "Farmer Ted" who talks Molly Ringwald into giving him her underwear in Sixteen Candles (1984). His television credits include the Emmy Award-winning "The Gold Bug," in which he played the young Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the TV movie Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982) (TV), and specials "The Body Human" and "Orphans, Waifs and Wards." On stage, he appeared in the Lincoln Center Festival's production of "St. Joan of the Microphone."

10. Damone’s Five Point Plan The Movie: Fast Times At Ridgmont High (1982) The Moment: Why It’s Defining: It’s a cool kid giving advice to a geek. That’s an event that occurs in every single ‘80s teen movie ever, whether it’s Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) getting Cameron (Alan Ruck) out of bed, or John Bender (Judd Nelson) bullying a bit of backbone into Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall). We’ve gone for this particular example, because a) Debbie Harry’s involved... .
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How McG (yes, that's his name -- he directed the new Terminator movie) evolved from bubblegum auteur into a tinseltown killing machine.
On a July day in 2004, the director known as McG sat in his car outside the terminal at Burbank Airport where Warner Bros. keeps its private jet fleet. He could see the Gulfstream g550 he was to board and feel the vibration of the engines' auxiliary-power unit. All he had to do was open the car door, cross the tarmac, and climb the stairs. The plane was bound for Australia, where McG was to shoot the new Superman movie. After his massive successes with the Charlie's Angels franchise, Warner was counting on the filmmaker to deliver a much-needed blockbuster to match. But McG couldn't move.
He'd spent the prior year planning storyboards and concept art, and making casting decisions based on a script he had commissioned from J.J. Abrams.
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We catch up with the stars of our favorite '80s teen flick.
It's been 25 years since John Hughes broke out as the go-to teen-flick auteur of the Me Decade, with his first directorial effort, the achingly romantic -- and uproariously hilarious -- 'Sixteen Candles' (1984). Remember when Molly Ringwald was the teen queen in all her quirky glory, Anthony Michael Hall was a skinny geek ... and John Cusack was a bit player who played "friend of geek"?
We're painfully aware that we're not in high school anymore; heck, Ringwald now plays the mother of a teen, in case we needed any greater reminder that we're all grown up. Which 'Candles' alum has gone into hiding, which quit the biz entirely (there's more than one) ... and which went on to two Oscar noms? Click through for an update on the whereabouts of the stars of one of the '80s most iconic teen comedies.
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