TMZ reports that Director John Hughes passed away today aged 59.
Hughes began his career as an ad exec, before graduating to joke writer for the likes of Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers. He then moved into screenwriting with National Lampoon’s Vacation.
If you live in London, like movies, like to have a good time and have no plans on the 31st of July, you’d do well to get down to the Curzon on Shaftesbury Avenue for their midnight screenings of two of STS’s favourite films. John Hughes seminal teen movie, Pretty In Pink and David Lynch’s nightmare view of 50s suburbia, Blue Velvet.
