From the "Another Reason to Go On Living" file

Salon:

Could it be time to put more candles on the cake? Molly Ringwald said she's in discussions to make a sequel to "Sixteen Candles," the 1984 movie about the obstacles and embarrassments a teen girl faces on her birthday.

The film, directed by John Hughes, shot Ringwald to teen stardom, but she hasn't appeared in a major role in many years. She said she's been appearing in theater, small TV and film parts and raising a daughter, now 18 months old.

Ringwald, 37, said she had been approached repeatedly about doing a sequel, but recently read a script that she liked and wanted to star in the movie.

"I've turned it down for years. I couldn't see how it would work," she said. "Now, it seems right."

Now, don't get me wrong...Sixteen Candles is a cute enough teen comedy, despite the appalling Asian caricature played by the otherwise funny (and otherwise unemployed, except for VH1's "I Love the Decade" series) Gedde Watanabe. But watching the Brat Pack with crow's feet, well, I just don't know.

(And if they can't get John Cusack for this project, I say call it off.)