Last updated: Friday, August 7, 2009
BRAT PACK LEADER JOHN HUGHES DEAD AT 59
Brat Pack director JOHN HUGHES has died after suffering a heart attack.
The man behind hit films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pretty in Pink was 59 when he collapsed and died while walking in Manhattan, New York on Thursday (06Aug09).
The father of two stepped away from the limelight in the 1990s to run a farm in his native Illinois.
His last film as a director was Curly Sue in 1991 but he penned the screenplays for 2008's Drillbit Taylor, and Jennifer Lopez's Maid In Manhattan in 2002.
Hughes was also the man behind the Home Alone and Beethoven film franchises.
Related News:
- FASCINATING FACT:
- ISRAELI TV STAR DIES IN PRISON
- LIT DRUMMER LOSES CANCER BATTLE AT 39
- COWGIRL CARROLL DEAD AT 95
- BLUES BROTHERS MASTERMIND DIES
- ACTOR PRESNELL DIES
- KNIGHT: 'LEAVING GREY'S ANATOMY WAS A TOUGH DECISION'
- RAPPER TEGA DIES
- BOSNIAN ROCKER KILLED IN FIRE
- SLAYER STAR'S SISTER LOSES CANCER BATTLE
Source: WENN
E-mail this to a friend
Printable version
Post a commentPOST A COMMENT
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
DID JACKSON KILL HIMSELF WITH DEADLY SHOT OF DEMEROL?
MICHAEL JACKSON may have accidentally killed himself - after waking on the night before he died and injecting himself with a deadly anaesthetic.
MORE NEWS:
. THE THINGS THEY SAY: GERARD BUTLER
. TIMBERLAKE LANDS SCENT DEAL WITH GIVENCHY
. FASCINATING FACT: BILL HADER
. HILTON SHOWS OFF HOUNDS' HOUSE
. JACKSON ENDED FATHER'S BUSINESS PLAN AFTER HEATED SUMMIT
. BELLE AND PATTINSON NOT DATING
. THE THINGS THEY SAY: TRAVIS BARKER
. PLANE CRASH ENDED BARKER'S WILD LIFE
. TYLER BROKE SHOULDER IN STAGE FALL
. JACKSON'S LOST TRACKS GRABBED BY SISTER LATOYA
