I just learned that John Hughes started off as a copywriter at Leo Burnett in Chicago..and he was very shy and that makes me happy...what CW of you will go off to make it big in Hollywood???

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Well. I’ve been in the biz 22 years in LA. Most CWs write screenplays on the side. CW pays the bills. I’ve known one CW who sold a script into options back in the early 2000s and then it never got made into a film. John Hughes is a unicorn

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Thanks for the comment EP1! I love JH films and think he had a lot of guts to follow his dreams and quit his bill paying job.

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