Director John Hughes, 59, R.I.P.

[Green Dragon]

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0 ... 47,00.html


Director of 80's movies like National Lampoon's Vacation, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.


National Lampoon's Vacation was based on a story he wrote for National Lampoon, several years earlier (before he became a director), called "Vacation '58", where the Griswold Family were vacationing to newly opened Disneyland.



Only 59.....

[Robert Saint John]

Here's to John. I still consider him almost single-handedly responsible for getting a lot of great indie/alt 80s bands exposure to a much wider audience. I was already 18 when Sixteen Candles came out, 19 for The Breakfast Club, so he wasn't changing my life or putting my story on screen. But there were moments when the 80s felt like the edge of a dark time, and his movies were always bright points in that, my favorite decade.

Favorite Hughes film: no doubt, She's Having a Baby

[Dagarah72]