RIP in 2009

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Betty

John Hughes made the movies that I spent my teen years watching - and obsessing over. I've lost track of how many times I've seen The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

And John Hughes made the movies I was honestly perplexed to discover my friends liked.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by Alex

And John Hughes made the movies I was honestly perplexed to discover my friends liked.

Shocking! (not)

[Gemini Cricket]

Some of the films Hughes wrote:

Drillbit Taylor (2008) (story) (as Edmond Dantes)
Maid in Manhattan (2002) (story) (as Edmond Dantès)
Reach the Rock (1998) (written by)
Home Alone 3 (1997) (written by)
Flubber (1997) (screenplay)
101 Dalmatians (1996) (screenplay)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (screenplay)
Baby's Day Out (1994) (written by)
Beethoven's 2nd (1993) (characters) (as Edmond Dantès)
Dennis the Menace (1993) (written by)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) (characters) (written by)
Beethoven (1992) (written by) (as Edmond Dantès)
Curly Sue (1991) (written by)
Dutch (1991) (written by)
Career Opportunities (1991) (written by)
Home Alone (1990) (written by)
Christmas Vacation (1989) (written by)
Uncle Buck (1989) (written by)
The Great Outdoors (1988) (written by)
She's Having a Baby (1988) (written by)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) (written by)
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) (written by)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (written by)
Pretty in Pink (1986) (written by)
Weird Science (1985) (written by)
European Vacation (1985) (screenplay) (story)
The Breakfast Club (1985) (written by)
Sixteen Candles (1984) (written by)
Nate and Hayes (1983)
Vacation (1983) (screenplay)
Mr. Mom (1983) (written by)

[BDBopper]

Rockabilly legend Billy Lee Riley He was one of my favorites! Enjoy one of his classics on Sun, "Red Hot"

[Not Afraid]

I've been meaning to post this for a few days now. I had missed that the great photographer Julius Shulman had passed in mid-July at the age of 98.

If you don't know the name, I'm sure you are familiar with this famous photograph of a Case Study House:


Here's a link to his Times obit.

[flippyshark]

Planes Trains and Automobiles is my favorite Hughes script. I liked The Breakfast Club for a short while, until it became everyone's "oh, I can so relate" movie. Vacation is lots of fun, but alas, I'm afraid Hughes is responsible for one of my least favorite genres - the Home Alone formula movie. (And the fact that he turned 101 Dalmatians into a "crooks fall into traps" HA clone really boiled my blood at the time.)

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I've been meaning to post this for a few days now. I had missed that the great photographer Julius Shulman had passed in mid-July at the age of 98.

If you don't know the name, I'm sure you are familiar with this famous photograph of a Case Study House:


Here's a link to his Times obit.

Case Study House #22 - The Stahl House - Pierre Koenig Architect (1959) To be precise...

[JWBear]

Here's the same shot in color!



And the same view today

[Strangler Lewis]

Budd Schulberg

Would he have made it without the family connections?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Sincerely, John Hughes