RIP John Hughes

[DiscoInferiorityComplex]

TMZ is reporting that writer/director John Hughes has died.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/06/john-hughes-dies/

[RubelT]

Just saw this, you beat me to it. RIP.

[aenemaTron]

That's funny because two people beat me to not liking your post.

I liked Breakfast Club. Smoke up, Johnny!

[RubelT]

fart.

[nadsat droog]

[pg13]

59.

John Hughes was 59 when he died.

That's only fifteen years away from now for me...and it hits home because John Hughes' work so often connected with me on various personal levels. His depiction of life for young people in the suburbs of Chicago resonated with me as I was growing up in Wisconsin. When he portrayed the confusing world of a wannna-be writer who found work as an advertising copywriter who struggled to adjust from being a child to being an adult, a husband and eventually a father in "She's Having A Baby"--it definitely rang true to me, who wanted to be a writer, worked as an advertising copywriter and is just now getting around to being a husband (and soon, a father!)

I felt like some of his movies gave clues for some of us, of a certain age, how life was to be lived...when some of us were desperately looking for clues.

We never find out what happens to Ferris when he grows up. We never know if the lives of the members of The Breakfast Club were shaped by their experiences.

And how many candles are on Molly Ringwald's cake now?

Instinctively, we all know that everyone dies...and nothing is permanent. It's just odd how you get reminded of this from time to time.

pg--"I guess it's pretty serious." Thank you, Simone.--seattle

[darrylduffy]

thank you pg.

[Simmeon]

59.
I felt like some of his movies gave clues for some of us, of a certain age, how life was to be lived...when some of us were desperately looking for clues.

Well said. I totally agree.

[thecomedian]

RIP John Hughes.

I'm only 24 and I've seen almost everything he's ever written or directed.

[crlygrl]

His poor family He was too young. RIP.

[TomHicks]

My friend Darren played Cliff (also called Weez) in "16 Candles," he was the geek friend of Anthony Michael Hall who was not John Cusack. He said that Hughes was a great guy, and since that was his first movie as a director he was totally open to suggestions and very approachable.

When Darren's brother, Rob, came out from L.A. to visit him on the set in Chicago. Hughes met Rob and asked him if he wanted to be in the movie. In the scene in the bathroom where the underpants are unveiled, there's a boy in the shot whose head and arms are hanging over the top of one of the stalls (like he's standing on the toilet). That's Rob.

[scamboogah]

My wife just called me and said this is her 'Michael Jackson'.

I got to meet him and Chris Columbus at a screening of 'Only the Lonely' in 1991. He was tall, gracious, and couldn't have been nicer.

I would echo everything PG said, and add that, when you take into account repeat viewings, I've probably spent more time being entertained by his work than just about any other artist alive or dead.

Just the other day, my phone rang as me and my wife were going to sleep. It was a wrong number. After I hung up, my wife asked, "What did they want?".

"Sex....". It was the response she was hoping for, and we both had a good laugh.

If you don't recognize that exchange, watch Sixteen Candles about 200 more times.

Even my screen name is a tribute to Samantha Baker's grandfather and the way he greets her at the beginning of the film.

Bummer.

[DiscoInferiorityComplex]

You want to hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right: I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold, hard cynic like you. But I don't like to hurt people's feelings. You think what you want about me, I'm not changing. I...I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. Because I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

[Babychoby]

Very sad. His movies are among the VERY few that I can watch over and over again. Both because of their quality and the fact that they are so evocative for me, having been the exact right age for them when they came out. He was really a touchstone for my generation.

[KevinLee]

[Simmeon]

^^ love that!

[smartbunny]

life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it

[Having Fun!]

Macaulay Culkin is having a terrible summer.

(Ferris Bueller is a top 10 favorite movie of mine. I am sad. )

[TacoSmith]

You want to hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right: I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold, hard cynic like you. But I don't like to hurt people's feelings. You think what you want about me, I'm not changing. I...I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. Because I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

Reading that choked me up a little bit. I can't remember the last celebrity death that has bummed me out like this one in a while.

[dorothy mantooth]

Well, if this isn't the biggest bag-over-the-head punch-in-the-face...GODDAMMIT.