Monday, February 23, 2015

"The Breakfast Club" Movie at 30-- Part 4: Salaries and Fashion

SALARIES

Paul Gleason, as the exhausted assistant principal (actually a very poor one for leaving the kids, but if he hadn't, there wouldn't have been much of a movie) moaned to a janitor that he has to put up with the kids and after 22 years as an educator, he was making $31,000.

Today, an assistant principal with comparable seniority and an advanced college degree in Northbrook now gets about $140,000.

FASHION

"The Breakfast Club" used 80s fashion such as parka hoods, brown leather riding boots and grungy plaids.  But some of these are coming back according to today's students.  Even Ally Sheedy's grunge look is hot.

Of course, I loved it when Molly Ringwald gave Sheedy the makeover. The look on the boys faces was great.

--Cooter

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