(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
John Hughes, the once-prolific filmmaker whose sweet and sassy comedies like “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” plumbed the lives of teenagers in the 1980s, died Thursday on a morning walk while visiting Manhattan. He was 59.
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was born on Feb. 18, 1950, in the suburbs of Detroit before moving, at 13, to the Chicago area. His father worked in sales, and he lived in a middle-class, all-American reality that became the mainstay of his films.
Mr. Hughes, who began his career as an advertising copywriter in Chicago, had been living quietly on a farm in northern Illinois. He is survived by his wife, the former Nancy Ludwig, whom he met in high school; two sons, John and James; and four grandchildren.
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his movies were a mainstay in our house….
breakfast club
ferris bueller
planes, trains & automobiles
the nat’l lampoon vacations…..
gha!
he helped my kids & me grow up.
i’ll miss him.
how are you doing……..
When those movies came out I was a few years older than the target audience and I felt I was too sophisticated for the characterizations and plots.
In the past several years on satellite I have watched these flicks as well as “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” etc, and realize they were just good quality entertainment,….those films did catch the flavor of the times ….the mid-eighties.
and now he’s dead.
What good is that career to him now? He’s dead.
It’s just weird. That guy made so much money. I hope he enjoyed it and did something good with it while he could.
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i was just passing the news on…
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