Don’t you forget about me
3 November 2009
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“My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.”
-John Hughes-
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Biography…
John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and writer. He scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon’s Vacation; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Hughes began his career as an advertising copywriter in Chicago in 1970 after dropping out of the University of Arizona. During this time, he created what became the famous Edge “Credit Card Shaving Test” ad campaign. More…
Tags: Don't you forget about me, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone, John Hughes, National Lampoon's Vacation, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, Weird Science
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