latimes.com - 8/6/2009
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John Hughes, the screenwriter, producer and director whose films captured the teenage zeitgeist of the 1980s, died suddenly of a heart attack today in New York City. He was 59. Hughes, best known for 1980s movies such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris ...
thesuperficial.com - 8/6/2009
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Director John Hughes died of a heart attack
today, according to TMZ: Hughes suffered the heart attack...
while taking a morning walk during a trip to NYC to visit family. He directed such '80s hit films as "The Breakfast... ...read full story
John Hughes dies at 59
news.yahoo.com - 8/6/2009
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NEW YORK Writer-director John Hughes , Hollywood's youth
impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the...
teen and preteen market with such favorites as " The Breakfast Club ," " Ferris Bueller's Day Off " and " Home Alone " died Thursday, a ...
'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC - ...
news.yahoo.com - 8/6/2009
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Thighs Wide Shut —
Peace The Fork Out 2 John Home Alonely The Only Guy Who Ever Got The Teen Movie Done Right, Again & Again & Again Hughes, Jr 1950 - 2009 can't say anymo right now cause this is like taking a giant (Breakfast) club to the head mo later much mo maybe much later too much grrrrrrrrrrreatness to digest right now poop :( ...
John Hughes, R.I.P.
The HeldenFiles Online —
... The writer-director famous for "Sixteen Candles" and other films of adolescence has died. Another obit is here.
I'm not of the generation that grew up with Hughes's films — I'm closer to his age than his audience's. And "Home Alone," one of his non-teen films (and a really sadistic piece at that), was something I took my older son to. But I appreciated what he tried to do as much as I was skeptical about his manipulations and the dubious convenience of the plotting and his characters' articulation.
But ...
R.I.P John Hughes
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... screenwriter, producer and director whose films captured the teenage zeitgeist of the 1980s, died suddenly of a heart attack today in New York City. He was 59. Hughes, best known for 1980s movies such as “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” was taking a morning walk in Manhattan where he was visiting family, according to a statement from his representatives.
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FlickFilosopher.com —
Film writer-director-producer John Hughes died yesterday , of a sudden heart attack in New York, where he was visiting. He was only 59. I am precisely the right age to have felt as if Hughes was speaking directly to me with his teen-angst comedies in the 1980s. (Which Breakfast Club character was I? I’d have been somewhere between Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall.) So it feels a little bit like a part of my childhood has gone with him. I always wondered whether he might revisit our generation, make a movie about us today -- if he was so inspired by people of our age back ...
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Director John Hughes, known for such movies as “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” died of a heart attack Thursday at the age of 59. Read more on John Hughes’ death below.
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