In Memoriam: John Hughes Jr., 1950–2009

[thatcrazycajun]

Film screenwriter and director John Hughes, responsible for helming seminal 1980s teen-coming-of-age flicks such as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, has died at 59 of cardiac arrest. CNN.com carries his obituary here. His films, besides giving rise to the so-called "Brat Pack" of then-young actors including Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Jon Cryer, helped define the adolescent temper of that generation. He also wrote and directed the first film in the lucrative Home Alone franchise, which launched the acting career of Macaulay Culkin, and gave us Ferris Bueller's Day Off (I can still hear Ben Stein as the teacher intoning, "Bueller? Bueller?") and National Lampoon's Vacation, an old favorite of mine.

My heart, thoughts and prayers go out to Hughes' wife of 39 years, Nancy; his two sons and four grandchildren; and all the rest of his family, friends and everyone who worked with him in this most difficult hour. What was your favorite Hughes film?

Comments

:-(

[junquegrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, he's very popular... The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

I was never in detention, but oh, how The Breakfast Club spoke to me. :../

[belzarak.livejournal.com]

"I am now and will always be...a duckman". - Pretty In Pink