Don't You Forget About Him - Director John Hughes dies @ 59

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited August 2009 in The Clubhouse
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".
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited August 2009
    wow.....too young. RIP.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited August 2009
    I'm becoming very afraid of the 50s. Rip Mr. Hughes.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited August 2009
    RIP fellow Glenbrook North High School alum.
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited August 2009
    Hughes had a great knack for understanding teen angst and finding the truth of both desiring independence yet still needing parents approval.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited August 2009
    RIP Mr. Hughes
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited August 2009
    R.i.p.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited August 2009
    So very young still...

    Rest in Peace.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,140
    edited August 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    i'm becoming very afraid of the 50s. Rip mr. Hughes.

    x2...:(

    Those were great movies..Bueller? Bueller?
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited August 2009
    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:
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,044
    edited August 2009
    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....
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  • everpress
    everpress Posts: 862
    edited August 2009
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    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.

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited August 2009
    RIP. He was one of my all time favorite directors. Tip O' the hat Mr. Hughes. You will be missed.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited August 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    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
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited August 2009
    snow wrote: »
    You mean your not in your 50's yet? :p

    RIP MR HUGHES




    REGARDS SNOW

    Yeah that's why I'm wary.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited August 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Yeah that's why I'm wary.
    I always figured you for at least 60 Joe






















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    Because of your great wisdom :)



    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited August 2009
    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
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2009
    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
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited August 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    May have gone a bit overboard on the return key there Snow
    Oops yup that was a long one :D



    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited August 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    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
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • CaligulaPolk
    CaligulaPolk Posts: 1,650
    edited August 2009
    the breakfast club is on demand.. I think ill watch it tonight in honor of John Hughes
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  • Retro152
    Retro152 Posts: 985
    edited August 2009
    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.



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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited August 2009
    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")
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited August 2009
    "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
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited August 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    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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