To suggest, however, that Pocahontas worshipped the white man, abandoned her people, or loved John Smith - as The New World movie does - is ridiculous. She didn't love the English. She used them.

Pocahontas' wedding was definitely a well-thought political move on her part, something she did for peace, because in the Indian world, high-born women married the enemy to prevent further conflict.

She was not the hapless Monica Lewinsky of her time. She was a James Carville.

Come on over anyway, John would have loved it.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.