News Source: Gawker
| 7 months ago
Recently-departed filmmaker John Hughes was known for making insightful but fantastical movies about teens. His death was an unexpected boon for a group of young filmmakers wrapping up a documentary about him...Hughes died last Thursday, and by noon...
News Source: The Guardian
| 7 months ago
What a pity that he later traded truth for cliche The success of John Hughes 's 1980s teen comedies, as tributes around the world seem to suggest, stemmed from their ability to make the teenagers watching feel as if his films were about them. For...
News Source: The Onion
| 7 months ago
Carl Johnson , Systems Analyst "This is probably just an elaborate ruse perpetrated by his daughter's smooth-talking boyfriend to get her out of school for the day." Allison Clark , Foreign Tour Guide "R.I.P. John Hughes, poet of teens who grew up...
News Source: The Courier-Journal
| 7 months ago
Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong...But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we...
News Source: The Courier-Journal
| 7 months ago
Of course, they seem to play in a continuous loop all weekend on cable, as well. They still rent a lot, Rappa said. Rappa's favorite Hughes flick. You had the punk in there and the jock and the nerd...Baxter recently screened a very...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 7 months ago
A spokeswoman for John Hughes says the director of 1980s coming-of-age films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club has died in Manhattan. Michelle Bega says the 59-year-old Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk. He was in...