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Once More Into the Pink: Jon Cryer Performs Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” as Duckie With James Corden

"We don't have a candy machine in the boy's room!"


The Late Late Show With James Corden hosted a very special performance. None other than Jon Cryer revisiting his Pretty in Pink character Duckie for a repeat performance of one of the film’s most famous scenes.

Also, not sure Cryer has aged at all. Is he a vampire? Here’s the original:

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In related Molly Ringwald news…

OMG @originalfunko is doing #SixteenCandles. “I can’t believe my Grandmother actually felt me up.”

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Yup, Funko is doing Sixteen Candles so you know all the other Brat Pack films aren’t far behind.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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