August 06, 2009

John Hughes RIP

Director John Hughes dies at 59

'Breakfast Club' helmer died of a heart attack


John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles" and produced and scripted family hits such as "Home Alone," died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59.

After an impressive string of hits -- "Home Alone" is one of the top-grossing live-action comedies of all time -- Hughes, who never won a major show business award, stopped directing in 1991 and virtually retired from filmmaking a few years later, working on his farm in northern Illinois.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006975.html?categoryId=13&cs=1

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