As we told you yesterday, director John Hughes died from a heart attack at the age of 59. The news came as a shock to many, even in this Summer of Death, and now Hollywood is coming out to pay their respects in the best way they know how: public statements made to the press. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorites from People.com.
John Hughes’s iconic films gave a powerful voice to a generation. He will be missed but never forgotten! – Demi Moore
His films helped establish an international notion of ordinary American teenagers, and he was as popular abroad as at home. Once when I was visiting the largest movie theater in Calcutta, I asked if Star Wars had been their most successful American film. No, I was told, it was Baby’s Day Out, a Hughes comedy about a baby wandering through a big city, which played for more than a year. – Robert Ebert
I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man. – Macaulay Culkin
He was a wonderful man, a genius, a poet. I don’t think anyone has come close to him as being the poet of the youth of America in the postwar period. He was to them what Shakespeare was to the Elizabethan Age. – Ben Stein
While I’ll admit that it’s been a couple years since I’ve rewatched a Hughes classic, watching this clip yesterday reminded me that he has the ability to create some of the whackiest and romantic scenes in movies ever, including this number from “Pretty in Pink”.
That is my favorite Hughes moment too, as you may have seen when I posed the link in my comments yesterday. Whenever I need a pick up I go straight to that scene. How can you go wrong with a great character like Duckie dancing and lip syncing away to the wonderful Otis Redding?
Also, that is the shorter version from a dubbed Pretty in Pink. You might want to post this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGIg8f-0Wc instead.
But this one is LOUDER for JAMMING PURPOSES
AHH!! Of course ;) haha
Wow, Culkin’s more eloquent than I would have given him credit for.
My thought as well. :)
Was that Matthew Broderick? How did we all get so old so quickly? He used to be very entertaining. Now I just think of him as Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband.
Oops I was wrong that was Jon Cryer. Comments still apply except the SJP one.
Also, fun fact for anyone in the LA area. If you are watching Pretty in Pink and finish that scene so you see Andy leave the store to go on the date, I am pretty sure the location for the record store is 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica. And if it is the intersection I think it is, that record store is now a crepe restaurant!
ROGER Ebert, not Robert.
Someone else said this in the comments yesterday but I just wanna repeat it. I am WAY Way way more sad that John Hughes died than Micheal Jackson. He has given me sooo many more great memories! I will truely miss him :-(
Yeah, and John Huges wasn’t a drugged out freak that had sex with underage boys either. Michael Jackson was a total waste.
I know I’ve already posted this in the other thread, but you guys may have missed it, and it’s a brilliant read. I posted:
I just read this great blog entry here by someone who he used to write to when she was a kid:
http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
What a guy. RIP.
Culkin talks when Hughes dies but not M Jackson.. What gives?