Perhaps even more tragic is that the first title credited in the obit is Home Alone. Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59. Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family .... .... A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set much of his work there, Hughes rose from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen champ with his affectionate and idealized portraits of teens, whether the romantic and sexual insecurity of "Sixteen Candles," or the J.D. Salinger-esque rebellion against conformity in "The Breakfast Club." (Associated Press) God, he did some good work: Planes, Trains & Automobiles (writer, director, producer) Some Kind of Wonderful (writer, producer) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (writer, director, producer) Pretty In Pink (writer, executive producer) Weird Science (writer, director) National Lampoon's European Vacation (screenplay, story) The Breakfast Club (writer, director, producer) Sixteen Candles (writer, director) National Lampoon's Vacation (screenplay, short story "Vacation '58") Mr. Mom (writer) I think Weird Science is my favorite. Followed by Ferris Bueller, PT&A, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Thanks, John. Rest well, sir. First I'm gonna make it. Then I'm gonna break it 'Til it falls apart. Hating all the faking And shaking while I'm breaking Your brittle heart. (Echo & The Bunnymen)______________________ Notes: Associated Press. "'Ferris Bueller' director John Hughes dies of heart attack". Chicago Sun Times. August 6, 2009. SunTimes.com. August 6, 2009. http://www.suntimes.com/news/obitua...es-dead-breakfast-club-bueller-080609.article
I'll always remember him as one of the funniest writers for National Lampoon in the late seventies, to early eighties. Things like Vacation 58 which was dumbed down into Vacation. If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever!
too young... he looks in ok shape Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_(director)
