Reclusive director of 'Breakfast Club,' 'Sixteen Candles' gave rare interview.
By Gil Kaufman
John Hughes
Photo: MTV (File)
When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to.
But mostly I thought about the time in 1997 when I somehow managed to get the rarely interviewed, publicity-shy director on the phone to talk about a little-known indie movie he wrote called "Reach the Rock."
The ostensible reason I finagled the talk was because I was a fan of a label run by his son,...
By Gil Kaufman
John Hughes
Photo: MTV (File)
When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood scene and basically retreated from the public eye and the persona he never wanted to live up to.
But mostly I thought about the time in 1997 when I somehow managed to get the rarely interviewed, publicity-shy director on the phone to talk about a little-known indie movie he wrote called "Reach the Rock."
The ostensible reason I finagled the talk was because I was a fan of a label run by his son,...
- 8/7/2009
- MTV Movie News
John Hughes dead at 59 (photo circa 1990)
Hollywood, and just about anyone who grew up in the 1980s, is mourning the death of director John Hughes today. According to Variety, the mind behind such generation-defining films as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, died suddenly of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, where he was visiting family. He was 59.
After multiple hits in the teen genre, including Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, he delivered successive runaway hits with Home Alone and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Hughes then inexplicably stepped out of the Hollywood spotlight in 1994. According to Variety he bought and worked a successful farm in Wisconsin.
Since the early 90s he rarely made public appearances or granted interviews expect to promote the soundtrack album to Reach the Rock, and independent film he wrote, and which his son, John Hughes III, scored.
Hollywood, and just about anyone who grew up in the 1980s, is mourning the death of director John Hughes today. According to Variety, the mind behind such generation-defining films as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, died suddenly of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, where he was visiting family. He was 59.
After multiple hits in the teen genre, including Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, he delivered successive runaway hits with Home Alone and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Hughes then inexplicably stepped out of the Hollywood spotlight in 1994. According to Variety he bought and worked a successful farm in Wisconsin.
Since the early 90s he rarely made public appearances or granted interviews expect to promote the soundtrack album to Reach the Rock, and independent film he wrote, and which his son, John Hughes III, scored.
- 8/6/2009
- by Quinn Bender
- MovieSet.com
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