Trelkovsky
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bye bye al director de la infancia de muchos de por aquí entre los que me incluyo, descanse en paz.
John Hughes, the director of the 80s "brat pack" films Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, as well as the writer-producer of blockbuster hit Home Alone, died suddenly of a heart attack in Manhattan on Thursday; he was 59.
Very few details were known at the initial announcement, as both Variety and TMZ reported that the director was on vacation in Manhattan and suffered the heart attack while on a morning walk.
A writer for National Lampoon magazine in the 70s, Hughes shot to fame in the early 80s by penning the hit comedy National Lampoon's Vacation and made his directorial debut with Sixteen Candles in 1984 and went on to make such iconic teen films as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off; he also wrote and produced Pretty in Pink, which starred his most famous leading actress, Molly Ringwald (who was in both Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club). He graduated to adult leads with the Steve Martin-John Candy 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Candy would also star in Uncle Buck two years later. In 1990 he wrote and produced the blockbuster comedy Home Alone, starring Macauley Culkin and directed by Chris Columbus. After directing Curly Sue in 1991, Hughes never directed another film, though he wrote and produced such 90s comedies as 101 Dalmatians, Flubber, and the Home Alone sequels.