John Hughes

...books aren't exactly my cup of tea. But it's not this genre. I like romance movies, even teen romance tales. I'm a sucker for John Hughes and Cameron Crowe. More than anything it seems like what the TWILIGHT movies are trying to be is...

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...Nemerovski of Prudential Rubloff, declined to comment on the rental. Set in Lake Forest Nancy Hughes, the widow of filmmaker John Hughes, has bought a 17-room, 6,700-square-foot English country-style house in east Lake Forest, about a...

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...name a few, "Part of Your World," "Beauty and the Beast," "A Whole New World," "Circle of Life,"…should I continue? All of the John Hughes movies have stand-out soundtracks - "Don't You Forget About Me" from The Breakfast Club, "Pretty in...

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...anything and this first experiment came out great. It's inspired by the 80s and watching Pretty in Pink, so there's a definitely John Hughes vibe in there too. It's so sad that he died recently. The title comes from an old necklace my...

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...appeared on p3 of the Features section of the Guardian on Friday 13 November 2009. From Pretty in Pink to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, John Hughes's movies came to define a generation in the 1980s. Paul MacInnes and Andrew Pulver discuss his...

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...J G Ballard, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Robert McNamara, Walter Cronkite, Frank McCourt, Bobby Robson, John Hughes, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Swayze, Claude Levi-Strauss and Robert Enke all died Congratulations for the...

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...Cuddy recalls House telling her the first time they met. For obvious reasons, the whole scene reminded me of the climax to a John Hughes movie. Surprisingly, though, I don't have much of an opinion on House and Cuddy's relationship. I...

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...itself at first, leaning on graduation and party scenes that can feel like they're from one of those generic teen diversions that John Hughes wrote but didn't direct. (In a new 20-minute retrospective, Crowe notes that the studio would have...

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...never know if he had another classic in him (one can't judge based on the silly scripts he contributed recently), it's safe to say that John Hughes has a secure legacy in Hollywood laughfests. No matter the age bracket, Planes, Trains, and...

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...legacy in Hollywood laughfests. No matter the age bracket, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles stands as one of his very best. John Hughes went to bat for us teenagers against the evil Baby Boomer adults and the damage their material...

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