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Article: Brat Pack director John Hughes dies.
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- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2009
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Byline: Reuters
LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker John Hughes, who made some of the most memorable teen comedies of the 1980s and turned Macaulay Culkin into a major star, died suddenly of a heart attack in New York on Thursday. He was 59.
Hughes, who had largely turned his back on Hollywood in the past decade to become a farmer in the Midwestern state of Illinois, collapsed while strolling in Manhattan, where he was visiting family.
His films, such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller s Day Off," are considered standard bearers of the teen genre, exploring American adolescent behavior with warmth and affection. He supplied his ...