How did John Hughes, director of “Breakfast Club” die?
ohn Hughes, 59, creator of such defining 1980s teen comedies as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and den father to the actors known as the Brat Pack, died of a heart attack yesterday while walking in Manhattan. Mr. Hughes’ most commercially successful movie was Home Alone (1990) – with Macaulay Culkin as the unchaperoned 8-year-old who outwits burglars – which the filmmaker wrote and produced. Its $286 million in U.S. box office makes it the top-grossing live-action comedy. Sources: http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20090807_John_Hughes__led__Breakfast_Club_.
NEW YORK – Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59. Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family. Jake Bloom, Hughes’ longtime attorney, said he was “deeply saddened and in shock” to learn of the director’s death. Sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.
Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32320427/ns/entertainment-movies/ Sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.
