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LONDON — David Bowie, the legendary rock singer who died Sunday at the age of 69, was a powerful fashion force who catapulted androgynous fashion into mainstream culture and transcended the boundaries of gendered clothing.
During his decades-long career, Bowie's innovation and tireless creativity was not only reflected in his iconic music, but also in the trailblazing style his fans seldom managed to keep up with.
Bowie is best known as a performer who adopted and cast off a plethora of alter egos, including Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke and Major Tom. But Bowie was also the first mainstream music star to bring gender-bending fashion centre stage. Bowie's androgyny knew no bounds; from his scarlet red mullet to his piercing neon-blue eye makeup, his flamboyant makeup and experimental hairstyles revolutionised masculine fashions in the 1970s, setting trends for both men and women alike.
Bowie performed in heels; he sported dresses, blouses and crotch-hugging jumpsuits; he painted his face with neon colours and glitter, all while oozing sex appeal and nonchalance that made it impossible to see gender-bending as anything other than cool.
For Bowie, however, this rejection of conventional masculinity was not just about gender — it was about shirking what it meant to be human. "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human," Bowie once said in an interview.
"I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'F*ck that. I want to be a superhuman.'"
A pre-glam David Bowie jams at a party in Los Angeles in January 1971
In 1970, the world first took note of the 23-year-old, long-haired, androgynous oddity from Brixton after he released his album The Man Who Sold The World. This album heavily influenced the glitter-soaked glam rock decade that followed, but the look that accompanied the album cemented Bowie as a style icon whose legacy still endures today.
Yet, in 1970, Bowie's brazen femininity was a bold and risky move. It had been a mere three years since homosexuality was legalised in the UK, and the Gay Liberation Front had just been established in response to growing concerns over widespread homophobia.
David Bowie performing at Earls Court Arena in 1973 during the Ziggy Stardust tour
Image: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns
In a tribute to Bowie, British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman wrote of the extent of Bowie's style influence on youth culture during the 1970s. "My friends and I looked to David for our style inspiration," she said.
"The covers of Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Ziggy Stardust were our moodboards. Shaven eyebrows, mullet hair, pale skin, blue and pink eye make-up were all attempted with varying degrees of success."
David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period is pictured in Philadelphia, Dec. 1, 1972.
"The 'swishy satin and tat' of Queen Bitch was our look of choice. We spent all our pocket money on skinny silk scarves from Biba, Forties tea dresses from Kensington Market, panne velvet loons from the Jean Machine, multicoloured platform boots from Sacha," Schulman continued.
David Bowie performs 'Rebel Rebel' on TV show TopPop in 1974.
Image: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns
Bowie's pirate-inspired ensemble — complete with eye-patch — became his era-defining, signature look. The painfully tight crotch and high-waisted body suit paired with a feminine blouse encapsulated the glamorous camp sensibility at the heart of glam rock.
Bowie's signature red mullet, eye patch and silk scarf.
Image: RTNWalter / MediaPunch/IPX
Dylan Jones, editor-in-chief of UK GQ, told Mashable: "You only have to look at the wild array of designs on show at London Collections Men to see just how influential Bowie was in terms of gender fluidity. This generation wouldn't be this generation without him."
Bowie's impact on the fashion world is a significant one. During a decade of recession and discord, Bowie made fashion fun and accessible for generations young and old. He reinvented what it meant to be masculine by wearing women's clothing and makeup. The ease with which he pulled off these looks made androgyny — an erstwhile social taboo — the new normal.
BONUS: Remembering the music of David Bowie across 6 decades
David Bowie, the highly influential singer, songwriter, actor, producer and artist, died on Sunday at the age of 69 after a bout with cancer his publicist and family confirmed early this morning.
Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, director of Moon and the upcoming Warcraft, was with his father as he died and posted this shortly thereafter on Twitter.
Bowie had just released his latest album Blackstar, his first after 10 years, last week when he also celebrated his 69th birthday.
Beyond his obvious contributions to the world of rock music where his style and androgynous persona was highly influential for multiple generations of musicians and artists, Bowie was also a prolific actor, starring in the science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1973 and later taking memorable roles in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. He was offered, but declined, to star as the Bond villain in 1985's A View to a Kill (the role instead went to Christopher Walken). More recently, Bowie starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige and made a cameo as himself in the original Zoolander.
Bowie’s musical hits included “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Heroes,” “Ziggy Stardust” and even the number one pop music hit “Let’s Dance” in the 80s.
Born David Robert Jones on Jan. 8, 1947, Bowie is survived by his wife, model Iman, their daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, and Bowie’s son from a previous relationship, Duncan Jones.
Bowie last performed live in 2006, but his legacy in both music, film, fashion and culture will always live on.
The amazing David Bowie is dead. So sad to see cancer appears to everyone.
I saw David Bowie live in 1990 in a big stadium. A show I will never forget. I was on front row.
Love his music and a few of his movies like "Labyrinth" from 1986, "Absolute Beginners" 1986 and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" 1992.
You can check his story on his wikipedia page and on his imdb page.
Here it goes a little from his history from wikipedia.
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known as David Bowie (/ˈboʊ.i/), was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, painter, and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, and was considered by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft significantly impacted popular music. During his lifetime, he sold an estimated 140 million records worldwide. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, and in the US received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Born and raised in south London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity" became his first top five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically toward a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie began a sporadic acting career, starring in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. Bowie also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and last performed live at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until his death on 10 January 2016, two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar.
You can see the rest of his story in his wikipedia page: wikipedia
Death
On 10 January 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of the album Blackstar, Bowie died from liver cancer in his New York City apartment. He had been diagnosed 18 months earlier but had not made the news of his illness public. The Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove, who had worked with the singer on his Off-Broadway musical Lazarus, explained that Bowie was unable to attend rehearsals due to the progression of the disease. He noted that Bowie had kept working during the illness.
Bowie's producer Tony Visconti wrote: “He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life — a work of art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn't, however, prepared for it. He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us. For now, it is appropriate to cry.”
Following Bowie's death, fans gathered at impromptu street shrines. At the mural of Bowie in his birthplace of Brixton, south London, which shows him in his Aladdin Sane character, fans laid flowers and sang his songs. Other memorial sites included Berlin, Los Angeles and outside his apartment in New York. Bowie was cremated in New York.
Discography
Studio albums
- David Bowie (1967)
- David Bowie (also released as Space Oddity) (1969)
- The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
- Hunky Dory (1971)
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
- Aladdin Sane (1973)
- Pin Ups (1973)
- Diamond Dogs (1974)
- Young Americans (1975)
- Station to Station (1976)
- Low (1977)
- "Heroes" (1977)
- Lodger (1979)
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
- Let's Dance (1983)
- Tonight (1984)
- Never Let Me Down (1987)
- Black Tie White Noise (1993)
- The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
- Outside (1995)
- Earthling (1997)
- 'Hours...' (1999)
- Heathen (2002)
- Reality (2003)
- The Next Day (2013)
- Blackstar (2016)
Filmography
Selected film roles
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) as Thomas Jerome Newton; received Saturn Award for Best Actor
- Just a Gigolo (1978) as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski
- Christiane F. (1981) cameo as himself
- The Snowman (1982) narrator in re-released version
- Baal (1982) as Baal
- Yellowbeard (1983) the sailor wearing shark fin – The Shark
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) as Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers
- The Hunger (1983) as John Blaylock
- Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984) as Vic and Screaming Lord Byron
- Into the Night (1985) as Colin Morris
- Labyrinth (1986) as Jareth the Goblin King
- Absolute Beginners (1986) as Vendice Partners
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) as Pontius Pilate
- The Linguini Incident (1991) as Monte
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) as Phillip Jeffries
- Dream On (1991) as Sir Roland Moorecock
- Basquiat (1996) as Andy Warhol
- Gunslinger's Revenge (1998) as Jack Sikora
- Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999) as Bernie
- Mr. Rice's Secret (2000) as William Rice
- Zoolander (2001) cameo as himself; nominated for MTV Movie Award
- The Prestige (2006) as Nikola Tesla
It’s been 30 years since John Hughes assembled his gang of adolescent misfits and delivered one of the most — if not, the most — iconic teen movies of all time. The film, which is being screened at SXSW today, was just re-released as a special Blu-ray edition, and later this month, fans will get an in-depth look at the work of the late director with the release of the book, John Hughes: A Life in Film. To celebrate this Brat Pack nostalgia, let’s take a look at what happened on-set when the cameras weren’t rolling:
1. Judd Nelson had security called on him at his audition. Nelson took the Bender attitude with him to his audition. Dressing for the part in boots, gloves, and all, he fully embraced Bender’s f-you attitude, proving to be a little much for the secretary, said Nelson:
“I was just about thrown out of the waiting room — a little gypsy actor was in the waiting room, as well, and I kept telling him to “stand up.” He was standing up — he was really short. The secretary in the waiting area called security, so as the elevator doors open and the security guard gets out, that’s when someone from the behind the office doors said, “Judd Nelson, we can see you.” I gave the finger to the security guard and walked into the room.”
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2. Nelson nearly got fired for picking on Molly Ringwald. Judd Nelson fully embraced Bender’s rebellious, bully attitude and picked on Ringwald a little too much, nearly getting himself fired by John Hughes. The other members of the Brat Pack told Nelson to tone it down and were able to convince Hughes not to send him walking.
3. Nelson bought the local teens beer. MORE Judd Nelson drama! Prior to filming, the actors were allowed to wander around the halls of Maine North High School. Nelson said that the location was more than appropriate as the halls had been nicknamed “jock hall” and “freak hall.” He also said that while exploring the high school, he got to know a few of the students and even bought them some beer in return for a ride back to his hotel. “They would ask me why I was staying there, and I told them my dad was in jail. I’m staying at the Westin O’Hare while my dad’s incarcerated.”
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Main North High School, present day.
4. The original script had a topless scene. Looking back a the film, a topless scene would’ve been incredibly out-of-place, but Hughes wrote the script in just a couple of days and fell back on the common risqué humor during his time at National Lampoon. One scene that was never shot involved the students discovering a peep hole into the girls’ swim team locker room and spying on a very well-endowed female coach. Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and co-producer Michelle Manning voiced their disapproval of the scene, and Hughes came in the next day with a reworked script and new character: Carl the janitor.
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5. Rick Moranis was originally going to play the janitor. After the sexy swim coach was cut from the script, Second City veteran Rick Moranis was brought in to play the role of Carl the wisdom-spewing janitor. Moranis showed up to set with a strange haircut, gold caps on his teeth, and goofy Russian accent. This didn’t fly with film producer Ned Tanen, and Moranis was cut and replaced with John Kapelos.
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6. The library was actually a gym. If the school looks eerily familiar to you, that’s because several of its scenes were shot at the same school from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which is not exactly surprising because many of Hughes’ movies take place in suburban Chicago. Producers didn’t like the school’s library, so they converted the gymnasium into what they thought the library should look like.
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7. John Hughes makes a cameo, as does his car. In the opening scene, when the kids are all arriving for their Saturday detention, that’s Hughes’ BMW that Claire arrives in. And that’s John Hughes, who plays Brian’s father picking him up at the end of the day.
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8. The stories in the circle confession scene were improvised. The iconic scene after the kids smoke pot and discuss why they’re all there was ad-libbed. Hughes had planned for the scene, but the gave the actor’s the freedom to tell their own stories. Molly Ringwald said that he was incredibly proud of their performance.
“The scene where we smoke pot, he just let the camera go on and on and on, he let me make up so much stuff. The entire thing was improvised. He was so thrilled that he brought my mom in and said, “You have to see how brilliant your daughter is!” And she was very excited to see something, and she sat down and watched me pretend like I was smoking pot for 20 minutes.”
9. Ally Sheedy found the David Bowie quote. It was Ally Sheedy who found the David Bowie quote from “Changes” and showed it to John Hughes. She had no idea that he planned to use it until it popped up during the opening credits, she just thought it was a cool quote.
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10. There’s some cryptic graffiti on the school walls. If you notice during the movie’s opening credits, some of the graffiti on the wall reads “I don’t like Mondays.” It’s not a Garfield reference. This graffiti refers to a 1979 school shooting committed by then 16-year-old Brenda Spencer, who opened fire on an elementary school, picking students and staff off with a rifle. When asked why she did it, she replied, “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”
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11. The movie’s title came from the school of one of Hughes’ friends. A friend that told Hughes that the “Breakfast Club” was the nickname for detention at his high school.
12. Nobody wanted to record the movie’s theme song. Composer Keith Forsey wrote “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and first pitched it to Billy Idol, who turned it down, and then The Pretenders, who also passed. Forsey then pitched it to Simple Minds, who initially didn’t want anything to do with it, but eventually agreed at the persuasion of their label at the time.
Bonus: Allison’s dandruff was parmesan cheese. Ally Sheedy didn’t have to produce her own scalp snow for Allison’s artwork.
The 1980s were the Golden Age of teen movies, with perhaps none more cherished and beloved than John Hughes‘ masterpiece of teenage angst, The Breakfast Club, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this week. Aside from just being a great movie, The Breakfast Club solidified the group of young actors Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, and Molly Ringwald as the teen idols of the day, then forevermore known as “the Brat Pack.”
There were popular high school movies in the ’80s before The Breakfast Club, and there were many after, but none spoke to an entire generation as much as this one did. And for those of us born of into a certain generation, we can’t hear Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” on the radio or in the grocery store or wherever, without thinking of Judd Nelson doing a fist pump into the air on a football field. It’s ingrained into our psyches forever.
Now a Youtube user by the name of Robert Jones has uploaded a tribute video to the great teen movies of the ’80s, centered around The Breakfast Club’s anthem, “Don’t You (Forget About Me.)” Almost every great teen centric movie of the era is showcased here, including all the John Hughes movies like Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, plus other favorites like Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Heathers, and The Karate Kid starring Ralph Macchio, which was the closest any of these movies had to an ethnic lead character (not everything was great about the ’80s.)
So check out this great tribute video below, or I’m gonna start “crackin’ skulls!”
Don't You (Forget About Me) - A Tribute to 80's Teen Movies
Be sure to pick up The Breakfast Club soundtrack on vinyl, so you can enjoy the movie’s music the vintage/correct way.
Tags: Back To The Future, Bill & Ted, Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Footloose, Heathers, John Hughes, Molly Ringwald, Pretty In Pink, Risky Business, Say Anything, Sixteen Candles, Stand By Me, Teen Wolf, The 1980s, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, The Karate, The Lost Boys, Weird Science
"Because We Can - The Tour" is in Europe right now. Today in Cologne, Germany. Only 4 days to Bon Jovi play here in my town, Lisbon.
I like when the bands do covers of famous songs that I love. Here Jon Bon Jovi is singing the amazing "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.
Awesome this video. You can see Jon reading the lyric on the floor. It's a video uploaded on youtube by fictionmistress.
Jon Bon Jovi - Under Pressure - Hard Rock Hollywood Ft. Lauderdale Florida - July 26, 2012
Here it is the original lyric.
Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure
That burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on the streets
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
Do do do bah bah bah bah
O-kay
Chippin' around
Kick my brains round the floor
These are the days
It never rains but it pours
People on streets
People on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher higher higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
Turned away from it all
Like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn
Why why why?
Love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love give love give love?
Give love give love give love give love give love?
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care
For the people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way
Of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
John Hughes, one of my favorite directors of the 80s has died with 59 years old.
John Hughes was a director who had a big mark in me in the 80s mainly because of the amazing movie "THE BREAKFAST CLUB". This is my all time favorite movie EVER. Saw it more than 20 times. An amazing generation of young actors like Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy. Also with Paul Gleason and John Kapelos. The amazing music of Simple Minds "Don't You Forget About Me" is the main song of the movie. And the famous David Bowie lyric of "Changes" in the beginning.
"The Breakfast Club is a 1985 teen film widely considered a definitive work in the genre. Written and directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club storyline follows five teenagers (each representing a different clique in high school) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes."
The Breakfast Club trailer (1985)
http://youtu.be/ZXzlCpHK3-I
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
http://youtu.be/CdqoNKCCt7A
And the video:
David Bowie - Changes [HQ] Official Video
http://youtu.be/PnMZicSeSjo
And the video:
Lines from the song's "Changes" second verse were used in the opening of the 1985 film "The Breakfast Club":
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through...
John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and/or scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Beethoven, Uncle Buck, Career Opportunities, 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone 3.
In bold are my favorite John Hughes movies.
He is known as the king of teen movies as well as helping launch the careers of actors including Michael Keaton, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, John Candy, & The Brat Pack.
Early life
Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother who volunteered in charity work and John Hughes, Sr., who worked in sales. He spent the first twelve years of his life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Hughes described himself as "kind of quiet" as a kid.
"I grew up in a neighborhood that was mostly girls and old people. There weren't any boys my age, so I spent a lot of time by myself, imagining things. And every time we would get established somewhere, we would move. Life just started to get good in seventh grade, and then we moved to Chicago. I ended up in a really big high school, and I didn't know anybody. But then The Beatles came along (and) changed my whole life. And then Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home came out and really changed me. Thursday I was one person, and Friday I was another. My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
In 1963, Hughes's family moved to Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where Hughes’s father found work selling roofing materials. It was there that Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois, the school that would provide inspiration for the films that would make his reputation in later years.
Death
Hughes died of a heart attack on August 6, 2009 while walking in Manhattan where he was visiting his family. On that morning, Hughes was on West 55th Street in Manhattan when he was struck with chest pains. At 8:55 a.m., 9-1-1 operators summoned paramedics to assist. Hughes was unconscious when they arrived several minutes later. Hughes was raced to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. He was 59 years old. Hughes's funeral took place on August 11 in Chicago. In addition to his wife and two sons, Hughes is survived by four grandchildren.
The pilot episode of the NBC comedy Community, broadcast on September 17, 2009, was dedicated to Hughes. The episode included several references to The Breakfast Club and ended with a cover of "Don't You (Forget About Me)". The One Tree Hill episode titled "Don't You Forget About Me", broadcast on February 1, 2010, ended with a scene similar to the ending scene of Sixteen Candles and included some other references to his movies such as Home Alone.
After Hughes' death, many of those who knew him, commented on the impact Hughes had on them, and on the film industry. Judd Apatow said "Basically, my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words. I feel like a part of my childhood has died. Nobody made me laugh harder or more often than John Hughes." Molly Ringwald 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.... He will be missed – by me and by everyone that he has touched. My heart and all my thoughts are with his family now." Matthew Broderick also released his own statement, saying, "I am 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."
Oscar tribute
The 82nd Academy Awards included a tribute to Hughes' work. A retrospective of clips from Hughes' films was followed by cast members from several of them, including Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and Jon Cryer, gathering on stage to commemorate the man and his contributions to the film industry.
Filmography
Delta House (1979) (TV)
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982)
At Ease (1983) (TV)
Mr. Mom (1983)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Nate and Hayes (with David Odell) (1983)
Sixteen Candles (1984) (also Director)
The Breakfast Club (1985) (also Director)
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) (Story Only)
Weird Science (1985) (also Director)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (also Director)
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) (also Director)
She's Having a Baby (1988) (also Director)
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Uncle Buck (1989) (also Director)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Home Alone (1990)
Career Opportunities (1991)
Only the Lonely (1991) (Producer Only)
Dutch (1991)
Curly Sue (1991) (also Director)
Beethoven (with Amy Holden Jones) (1992) (as Edmund Dantes)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Flubber (1997)
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Reach the Rock (1998)
Just Visiting (with Christian Clavier and Jean-Marie Poire) (2001)
Maid in Manhattan (2002) (Story Only) (originally titled "The Chambermaid") (as Edmund Dantes)
Drillbit Taylor (2008) (Story Only) (as Edmund Dantes)
Frequent casting
Several actors appeared in multiple films directed by Hughes. John Candy appeared more than any other actor, with eight film credits. Other frequently cast actors included:
John Ashton (three films)
Macaulay Culkin (four films)
Bill Erwin (three films)
Anthony Michael Hall (four films)
Larry Hankin (three films)
John Kapelos (three films)
Edie McClurg (five films)
Molly Ringwald (three films)
Fred Thompson (two films)
William Windom (four films)
Don't You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me is a documentary about four Canadian filmmakers who go in search of Hughes after his drop out of the spotlight in 1991, featuring interviews with actors in Hughes's films, notably missing Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Matthew Broderick. The film is distributed by Alliance Films.
Don't You Forget About Me is also the name of an anthology of contemporary writers writing about the films of John Hughes, edited by Jaime Clarke, with a foreword by Ally Sheedy, published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Writers include Steve Almond, Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.
How about some trailers of my favorite movies:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Trailer
http://youtu.be/R-P6p86px6U
Duncan Jones
