John Hughes: Stars pay tribute
Story by Jack Foley
ACTORS and former colleagues have been lining up to pay tribute to John Hughes, the legendary director who died on Thursday at the age of 59.
In a statement, Matthew Broderick, who played the lead in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, said: “I’m truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family.”
Molly Ringwald, who appeared in Hughes’ films Pretty In Pink and The Breakfast Club, said: “I was stunned and incredibly sad to hear about the death of John Hughes. He was and will always be such an important part of my life.”
Veteran comedian and actor Steve Martin, who worked with Hughes on Planes, Trains And Automobiles, remembered the director with affection, saying: “John Hughes was a great director, but his gift was in screenwriting. He created deep and complex characters, rich in humanity and humour.”
And former child star Macaulay Culkin, who worked with Hughes on Uncle Buck and the Home Alone movies, said that the films of Hughes would live on for decades to come.
He said: “I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man.”
Actor-director Bill Paxton thanked Hughes for helping to launch his career by casting him in the 1985 film Weird Science.
He said: “He took a tremendous chance on me. Like Orson Welles, he was a boy wonder, a director’s director, a writer’s writer, a filmmaker’s filmmaker. He was one of the giants.”
My Condolences to his family, I loved some of his movies especially the breakfast club, Home Alone and Home Alone 2. Definitely his movies defined a generation as well as gave us plenty of chuckles.
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