John Hughes (1950-2009)The Loss of writer Bud Schulberg is sad but not at all shocking, the guy was 95 after all and he left behind some of cinemas greatest work.
The loss of John Hughes is quite shocking and very sad to me, a child of the 80's. One of my first major crushes was on a girl who resembled Molly Ringwald and it was at the time that Hughes was at his peak. I had seen Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985) and Pretty In Pink (1986) hundreds of times at that age. To not own one soundtrack from his films would be considered sacrilegious. Mr. Hughes passing is like a nail in the coffin of my youth.
As I look back at the films he wrote, directed, or produced it makes up a large portion of my childhood. Mr. Mom (1983), Vacation (1983) and even Nate & Hayes (1983)! I didn't know he wrote that, crazy! I also can't forget the classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and my personal favorite Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987).
He had retired from the biz as a director, but continued to produce and write under the psudonym Edmond Dantes, the name of the main character from Alexandre Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
He has left behind a body of work that defined a generation and will be missed.
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