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John Hughes Dead at 59

  • 8/6/09 at 4:44 PM
John Hughes Dead at 59

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TMZ is reporting that John Hughes, director of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles, died of a heart attack this morning in New York. [TMZ] Update: The AP confirms. New York spoke with Hughes in June of 1985 for a cover story on the Brat Pack.

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