View Full Version : [News] Don't You Forget About Him - Director John Hughes dies @ 59
Danny Tse
08-06-2009, 05:19 PM
Just coming across the news wires now....
NEW YORK – 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 Manhattan to visit family.
He made a teen star of Molly Ringwald with 1984's "Sixteen Candles" about a girl's nightmarish birthday on the eve of her sister's wedding.
Ringwald also starred in "The Breakfast Club," about a group of high school misfits during Saturday detention, and "Pretty in Pink."
Hughes also directed "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and wrote "Home Alone." He lived in Illinois and set many of his films in the Chicago area.
Thanks for all the film memories....RIP Mr. Hughes
Btw, the title of the thread is a word play on the song "Don't You Forget About Me" by The Simple Minds....a song forever linked to Mr. Hughes' "The Breakfast Club".
Knucklehead
08-06-2009, 05:23 PM
wow.....too young. RIP.
hearingimpared
08-06-2009, 05:33 PM
I'm becoming very afraid of the 50s. Rip Mr. Hughes.
petrym
08-06-2009, 07:24 PM
RIP fellow Glenbrook North High School alum.
markmarc
08-06-2009, 08:22 PM
Hughes had a great knack for understanding teen angst and finding the truth of both desiring independence yet still needing parents approval.
george daniel
08-06-2009, 08:27 PM
RIP Mr. Hughes
danz1906
08-06-2009, 08:41 PM
R.i.p.
AudioGenics
08-06-2009, 08:49 PM
So very young still...
Rest in Peace.
Tony M
08-06-2009, 09:02 PM
i'm becoming very afraid of the 50s. Rip mr. Hughes.
x2...:(
Those were great movies..Bueller? Bueller?
danger boy
08-07-2009, 02:40 AM
holy cow... 2009 is going to go down in history where the most people in the entertainment industry passed away at a young age. + I have two personal friends who passed away this year both under 45 years old. :confused:
Keiko
08-07-2009, 03:00 AM
I think that those of us within this age bracket are indeed part of an elite generation.
RIP John Hughes
kevhed72
08-07-2009, 09:22 AM
I always thought it was great he filmed many of his movies in the Chicago area, since so many other directors use NY or LA. I think all of the movies mentioned earlier, especially Ferris Bueller, could be considered classics at this point....
everpress
08-07-2009, 09:39 AM
I always thought it was great he filmed many of his movies in the Chicago area, since so many other directors use NY or LA. I think all of the movies mentioned earlier, especially Ferris Bueller, could be considered classics at this point....
They were all immediate classics from a young director/writer.
Geeze. I'm 30 and I'm scared of the next 15-20 years now. Great.
RIP Mr. Hughes.
lightman1
08-07-2009, 09:42 AM
RIP. He was one of my all time favorite directors. Tip O' the hat Mr. Hughes. You will be missed.
I'm becoming very afraid of the 50s. Rip Mr. Hughes.You mean your not in your 50's yet? :p
RIP MR HUGHES
REGARDS SNOW
hearingimpared
08-07-2009, 11:08 AM
You mean your not in your 50's yet? :p
RIP MR HUGHES
REGARDS SNOW
Yeah that's why I'm wary.
Yeah that's why I'm wary.I always figured you for at least 60 Joe
Because of your great wisdom :)
REGARDS SNOW
hearingimpared
08-07-2009, 11:16 AM
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I'm 54 and the only wisdom I've acquired is, "Watch out where the huskies go, don't eat that yellow snow.":D
bobman1235
08-07-2009, 11:40 AM
May have gone a bit overboard on the return key there snow.
Great tribute to Hughes here from a former pen pal of his : http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
May have gone a bit overboard on the return key there SnowOops yup that was a long one :D
REGARDS SNOW
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I'm 54 and the only wisdom I've acquired is, "Watch out where the huskies go, don't eat that yellow snow.":D He He good advice :)
REGARDS SNOW
CaligulaPolk
08-07-2009, 06:51 PM
the breakfast club is on demand.. I think ill watch it tonight in honor of John Hughes
Retro152
08-07-2009, 07:27 PM
Man, seems like yesterday, 1985, 18 yrs old, movie theater, "Breakfast Club", girlfriend, real dark, zzzzzzzzzzzip........... Ah, nevermind.:D The director of a generation, no doubt. Rest in Peace Mr Hughes, god speed.
Pat.
Danny Tse
08-10-2009, 02:35 PM
It finally hits me this weekend....late Saturday night, specifically. I was flipping through channel on TV, when I realized that there're John Hughes film alums on every single channel. Granted, these're reruns, but....
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men - my current favorite TV comedy)
James Spader (Boston Legal)
Anthony Michael Hall (Dead Zone)
Matthew Broderick (by way of his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, on "Sex and The City")
Danny Tse
08-14-2009, 05:21 PM
"A Belated Thank You" from Jim Kerr of the Simple Minds, from the band's official website....
The film director John Hughes died this last week and although it would be wrong for me to say that I knew him well, there is however no denying that the effect of his enthusiasm for our music resulted in our band receiving genuine worldwide recognition.
“A number one tune in the American Billboard charts is a f***king No1 on the American Billboard charts after all!” As our then never lost for words, manager Bruce Findlay, liked to say at any given opportunity.
And indeed why not? A No1 record in Lilliput even, is worthwhile celebrating. But when it is the biggest market in the world, and you are No1, (As opposed to the measly No 2 spot which is where our far better in my opinion - Alive and Kicking - got derailed.) surely then one must savour the moment and indeed cherish it for the rest of your living days. That is precisely what we do as it happens!
And so it is that during the forthcoming Graffiti Soul Tour, and when each and every night we dig into ourselves in order to pull out the greatest ever version of Don’t You Forget About Me. It is John Hughes that I will be considering, and how in particular it was his enthusiasm for the sound of Simple Minds that made us go the extra mile back in December ’84, when we pulled up at a draughty and soulless Wembley recording studio. Hell-bent nevertheless on making a classic piece of pop rock, and one at that which would figure perhaps among the best of a generation whenever looked back on.
John Hughes and his movie The Breakfast Club, gave us above all the thrilling opportunity that everyone who starts a band dreams off. The opportunity that is of aggregating the kind of success that enables an act to go through the door and into what is considered to be “The Big League.” That we were maybe destined for it in any case is neither here nor there, the fact is that John helped us kick the door down and once there no one could ever lock us out or tell us again what it felt like to be No1 in America.
Because thanks to John Hughes and his film The Breakfast Club, we had been there and done it for ourselves, and not so many can say that unfortunately!
Thank you John!
Jim Kerr
Yeah that's why I'm wary.
I hear you...our generation has been dropping like flies lately! 50 something that is.
It's got to unnerve you, me just a wee bit.
cnh
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