John Hughes died suddenly Thursday of a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan. He was 59 years old. In case you are too young to know who John Hughes ..let me just say he is the man who brought us The Donger. Enough said.

John Hughes, who captured the zeitgeist of 1980s teen life as writer-director of “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” and produced and scripted family hits such as “Home Alone,” died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59.

The filmmaker, whom critic Roger Ebert once called “the philosopher of adolescence,” was a major influence on filmmakers including Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow, who told the L.A. Times last year, “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,” said Apatow in a statement.

Amen Brother Apatow. I can’t tell you how many times I watched 16 Candles and The Breakfast Club with my girlfriends. Good-bye to the man who taught me what romance was in Pretty in Pink.

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