John Hughes, 1950-2009.
Variety is reporting that John Hughes has passed away at the age of 59. Hughes was the man responsible for writing and directing some of the defining films of the teen genre and, without question, of the '80s: "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," not to mention comedy "Planes, Trains & Automobiles." The last film Hughes directed was 1991's "Curly Sue" -- not what one would describe as a success -- a few years after which he pretty much withdrew from the public eye and returned to the Midwest, continuing to write screenplays and occasionally act as a producer. His last credit is as the originator of the story for "Drillbit Taylor," under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes. Of his films, "The Breakfast Club" will always come first in my heart, but it's "Bueller" that seems the richer text. At least, no other film in Hughes oeuvre...
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