Hughes died last Thursday, and by noon on Friday, Canadians Matt Austin, Kari Hollend, Mike Facciolo, and Lenny Panzer had inked a deal to have their recently-complete Hughes-centric movie Don't You Forget About Me released by Alliance Films. They also wound up on CNN and with a huge uptick in traffic to their blog.

Started more than three years ago, the crew set out to track how and why Hughes faded into obscurity after a run of such successful films. Of course, as the crew told the Globe and Mail they're a little sad that their success is largely due to Hughes death.

"It's a very uncomfortable feeling and you can't help but feel guilty," Ms. Hollend said. "You never want to feel like something good has happened to one person as a result of something bad happening to someone else."

While the group scored some interviews with Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy, and Mia Sara (Sloane from Ferris Bueller's Day Off!) still no news on whether or not they bagged a conversation with the man himself. You do need a reason to go see the movie, now don't you! We do know that Molly Ringwald declined to participate.

Ms. Ringwald (The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink) declined numerous interview requests, for what Mr. Austin suspects are similarly melancholy reasons: "She was very close with him and I think she didn't want to speak on his behalf."

The release date is still being set, but we'll be calling in sick and stealing our father's Ferrari to go to the premiere.

There is no point fighting it anymore. Vh1 will continue to produce shows featuring has-been stars from our youth and, like moths to the TV screen, we'll watch them cry, urinate on themselves and make out in hot tubs until the end of time. Their newest idea will feature (shocker!) Vh1 reality vet Scott Baio mentoring eight “male teen idols” of the 80s in an effort to jump-start a comeback. Since the sad little group has yet to be revealed, we went ahead and picked two former crushworthy picks we’d most like to see week after week, and the two who might force us to cancel our cable package altogether:

Squeal-Worthy:
Kirk Cameron: Yes, he's some kind of born-again family man whose intense dedication to JC scares us more than a little, but with former womanizer Scott at the helm, we think he could convert back to ladies' man after seeing a stripper for the first time in ten (fifteen? twenty?) years.
Fred Savage: We will never, ever get over our crush on Kevin from The Wonder Years. We don't care what he's turned into, but those dimples will always make us weak in the knees.

Do Not Want:
George Michael: While it might be interesting to mix in an openly gay star into the mix of what's sure to be a heterofest, the last thing anyone needs is to see is George and Scott Baio in a painful re-enactment of the former's bathroom misadventures.
Ricky Schroeder: Kid is doing just fine. With guest spots on 24 and Scrubs under his belt, we don't think he's as desperate as the rest. Plus he already came back on NYPD Blue and had his chance. Aside from all that, he never quite made our heart "throb" in the first place.

• SCOTT BAIO TO EXEC PRODUCE VH1 REALITY SERIES FEATURING FORMER MALE TEEN IDOLS