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Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy reminisced about making The Breakfast Club at a screening of the fully restored 1985 film on Monday in Austin, Texas. To kick off the South by Southwest film festival screening, which commemorated the film’s 30th anniversary, the Barton Hills Choir serenaded attendees with a rendition of the movie’s theme song, Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” Sheedy, who now volunteers as a teacher at New York’s LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, said the movie’s message was a loving one. The film chronicles five teens subjected to spending Saturday in detention. Played by Ringwald, Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, the students aren’t all initially friends but become close by day’s end. Ringwald said she recently saw the movie with her teenage daughter and was surprised to find that her daughter most related to Hall’s character, Brian Johnson. Nicknamed “the Brain,” he was a straight-A student who attempted suicide after flunking an assignment in shop class. “She felt that I had too many expectations on her,” Ringwald said. “It was this incredible moment where I realized I was the parent.”
The former bassist for 3 Doors Down pleaded no contest Monday to a second-offense drug-related charge of driving while impaired. Todd Harrell did not appear in court in D’Iberville, Miss. An attorney entered the plea on his behalf, local media outlets reported. Municipal Judge Albert Fountain sentenced Harrell to the maximum one year in prison. Fountain suspended six months of the sentence. Harrell must admit himself to a drug and alcohol facility and attend a multiple-offenders program. After rehab, he’ll face six months of incarceration. Fountain said Harrell has indicated that he will appeal. Harrell, 43, was arrested on the second-offense DUI charge Feb. 18, 2014. In Harrell’s first DUI case in D’Iberville, he told police he had prescription drugs in his system when he rear-ended a car in July 2012. He was convicted, then appealed and was found guilty again. Nine months after his first D’Iberville incident, Harrell was arrested in Nashville, Tenn., on a charge of vehicular homicide by intoxication. He was accused of driving while impaired by prescription drugs and alcohol in the April 2013 fatal crash. Harrell has been under house arrest for that case.