Friday, August 7, 2009

BREAKFAST CLUB DIRECTOR JOHN HUGHES HAS PASSED AWAY

The SUMMER OF DEATH took a short break, but it's back. Director JOHN HUGHES . . . the man who DEFINED what teen movies were in the 1980s . . . died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday. He was 59.

Hughes suffered a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan to visit family.

Hughes only directed EIGHT movies, but they were almost all classics. They were:

"Sixteen Candles", 1984

"The Breakfast Club", 1985

"Weird Science", 1985

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off", 1986

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles", 1987

"She's Having a Baby", 1988

"Uncle Buck", 1989

"Curly Sue", 1991


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