John Hughes is Dead at 58.

[Bicoastal]

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1617796/story.jhtml

Wrote and Directed Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Uncle Buck...

Wrote National Lampoon's Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone...

RIP :cry:

[tridim]

1. Ouch! He's arguably more culturally important than MJ.

No more yanky my cranky, the Donger wants food!

RIP John.

[Mojambo]

4. Certainly more important than MJ to me. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Me too.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. How culturally significant could he be without being known by name?

(A little dig from an MJ fan...........) Everybody's important and deserves to be recognized after their time here. I think it was disrespectful to the memory of Mr. Hughes AND Michael Jackson to drag Michael Jackson into it. Shame on you!

[tridim]

15. It's just my opinion. No shame here.

And obviously he'll get about 1/1000th the coverage that MJ's death did.

That said, I was also a MJ fan.

[Touchdown]

23. I know him. I've heard about him since 16 Candles.

But then again, I read the credits when the movies begin.

Hughes and Spielberg were the big directors of the 80s. They made the zeitgeist of the time.

Without Hughes, we would've never heard of Molly Ringwald... on second thought... Damn that John Hughes!;)

[SoCalDem]

2. Poor John, dead AND unrecommended...all in the same day

:(

[SacredCow]

3. He was a hit teen movie machine in his heyday....

Safe journey, Mr. Hughes.

[Starry Messenger]

5. This is a sad one.

:(

RIP John Hughes

[Wickerman]

6. Sad

and he seemed to have met success on his own terms. Quite a guy.

[quiet.american]

7. The man was an amazing talent. Gone too soon. nt

[grace0418]

9. How sad. Those were the movies of my youth for sure.

So many icons of my youth are dying this year. It's not making my fast-approaching 40th birthday any easier, that's for sure. RIP John.

[BlooInBloo]

10. RIP. Some Kind Of Wonderful will always be my #1.

[slay]

12. A much overlooked gem - Some Kind Of Wonderful was great - and the drums

at the beginning - wow!

[BlooInBloo]

14. Ok dammit - I'm bittorrenting it and watching it tonite.

[slay]

11. Aw man - Breakfast Club was my all time favorite teen movie

still is.. :(

[H2O Man]

16. It's a great movie,

and not just for teens. It has the roles set up exactly as the human service model for the dysfunction family. It's a good study for young social workers.

[TahitiNut]

18. Indeed ... the paradigms presented in each role are both clear and not superficial.

While there's a "morality play" flavor to the film, the characterizations are sufficiently in-depth that it comes off as more than cartoonish. That "brat pack" was a tour de force in casting, including the janitor and teacher. They portrayed the "as the twig is bent, so grows the tree" maxim at the pinnacle of a "coming of age" point. It's a film that just doesn't get old.

[H2O Man]

21. One important thing

about each character on the family model is that each one has both a godd and bad potential. The movie has the depth you note, because it explores that range. (In recent times, the family model usually is made into four children's roles, rather than five. Some of the traits, of course, can be blended, and roles change as family members age.)

[mzmolly]

22. Ah yes,

who can forget the Breakfast Club? An outwardly superficial film with unexpected layers of depth. ;)

RIP Mr. Hughes

[Johonny]

17. I imagine there's an interesting story

on why he stopped making movies and went back to just writing. He certainly is a director/writer who's movies tend to have their own particular genre

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Those were the movies of my teen years. RIP John

[Tesha]

20. Oh man -- there's going to be tons of black bunting in Shermer, IL tonight! (NT)