The Brat Pack enabler and Illinois nationalist, a writer/director who inflicted himself permanently onto the teenage psyche of Generation X, then quit directing while he was ahead in 1991, has died of a heart attack at age 59. Did you know that he invented those Edge vs. foam credit card shaving commercials, at least according to the Wikipedia?
I was looking around for a clip of The Breakfast Club, Hughes' high-water mark (you Ferris Bueller fans are just wrong, don't even argue)...and I found what may be Judd Nelson's second-best performance:
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