Posted on 08/06/2009 2:05:53 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
AMC will waste no time in announcing an all Hughes weekend this weekend for sure.
Thanks for the laughs, John.
I’l set my DVR if they are.
The Academy should award him a Lifetime Achievement Award for that fact alone...
A: You can never go too far. B: If I'm gonna get busted, it is *not* gonna be by a guy like *that*.
One of my favorite directors from the ‘80s. Kept waiting for his comeback film, alas, not to be. Rest in peace, and say hi to Principal “Dick” Vernon for me.
Loved his movies. Prayers for him and his family.
Planes, Trains was his best IMO. I didn’t see some of his later films, but I usually could enjoy even the ones I was not as fond of. For example, I thought Some Kind of Wonderful was rather weak, but I still watch it just about any time it’s on. A little trivia: over Hughes’ objections, the studio insisted that Andie end up with Blane at the end of Pretty in Pink. He wrote Some Kind of Wonderful to get the ending he wanted: the poor guy ends up not with the rich girl he covets, but with the poor girl.
Sad. A great artist who will be missed.
"See that Bears game last week?"
“Those aren’t PILLOWS!”
where is verification for this?
“Oh, dear.”
“Oh, dear what?”
“You’re f-—ed.”
What’s the score?
Nuthin, nuthin
Who’s winnin’?
RIP John
thanks for the ping qam1
John Hughes has died of a heart attack.
Hughes suffered the heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to NYC to visit family.
http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/06/john-hughes-dies/
Wow. National Lampoon’s Vacation is one of my all-time favorites.
RIP, John. Thanks for the laughs.
In the mid-’90s, though, Hughes retreated from Hollywood, moving to Illinois and largely declining to give interviews.
According to Variety, Hughes was born February 18, 1950, in Michigan and is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy; two sons, John and James; and four grandchildren.
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