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Stars Pay Tribute To John Hughes
7 August 2009 1:11 AM, PDT
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Steve Martin, Macaulay Culkin and Matthew Broderick are leading the tributes to director John Hughes, who died on Thursday.
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John Hughes, Bard of Teen Angst, Dead at 59
6 August 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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Odds are you didn't go to high school with John Hughes. Odds are it sure seemed like you did.
Hughes, the popular, almost-mythical filmmaker who made teen angst hurt so good in biting comedies such as Sixteen Candles, only to leave Generation Xers largely on their own as the Molly Ringwald-ruled 1980s ended, died after suffering a sudden heart attack during a walk this morning in Manhattan. He was 59.
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Director John Hughes Dies at 59
6 August 2009 2:07 PM, PDT
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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.
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Producer Ned Tanen Dead At 77
6 January 2009 1:31 AM, PST
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Ned Tanen, who served as president of both Universal and Paramount studios,
died Monday in Santa Monica at age 77, Daily Variety reported today
(Tuesday). With Russ Regan, Tanen founded Uni Records in 1967, focusing
initially on the psychedelic sounds of the mid-60s. After moving into film
production, he brought to the screen such Universal films as Smokey and
the Bandit, Coal Miner's Daughter and Melvin and Howard. As an
independent producer (Chanel Productions), he turned out the brat-pack hits
Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Moving to Paramount in 1984, he greenlit such films as Planes, Trains
and Automobiles and The Untouchables.
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