Anthony Michael Hall: Stanley Kubrick Phone Calls, Why Movies Lost Suspense & John Hughes Doc

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From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Anthony Michael Hall. Plus the news with Andrew Hobson and now, Adam Carolla.

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Yeah, get it on. Got to get on it.

**Adam Carolla** (3:05)
Good choice, make it on Mandate, you get on. Good to see Anthony Michael Hall again. I feel like, slide that mic into you.

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**Adam Carolla** (3:14)
Yeah, I mean, we all grew up with Anthony Michael Hall. And, you know, it's kind of interesting as I think about those movies, especially the John Hughes ones and like, how they were almost, almost like a soundtrack is when you're young, you know, like you remember those songs from when you're in high school and they're always that kind of imprinted, you know, like a weird thing. Like if I ever smell fresh mowed grass, I just think about football practice, right? No matter how old, no matter where I am, no matter how much my back hurts, I just go football, right? Cause you're like a brain. And I feel like so many movies you were in, I mean, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, you know, Lampoon, Vacation, everything, it was just like it's like imprinted on people.

**Anthony Michael Hall** (4:03)
I appreciate it, man. Well, one of the things that one of his strengths, Adam John, was music and his love of it. But you're right, how we all live in memory, right? Music and films can just bring us back to a place in life. But John was amazing that way. Like he would integrate all those songs into a soundtrack. When I was a kid making those films with him, I'd often go home to their house on the weekends, the Hughes' and I'd spend time with he and his wife and his two young kids. But his writing room was amazing, Adam. He had a desktop computer in the corner and then floor to ceiling 12 inch records. Almost looked like a record store.

**Adam Carolla** (4:33)
Really?

**Anthony Michael Hall** (4:33)
So that was really integral to his process, how he wrote all those music cues into the scripts. But he was also just so cool because the scripts are always great, but then he let us ad lib and try a lot of stuff too. But I appreciate what you said, man.