Dear John Hughes:

[heidi8]

You gave me James Spader and Jon Cryer and a litle bit of Robert Downey, New Order songs and Suzanne Vega's Left Of Center, which I played on a cassette tape far too often my sophomore year of high school, and at my sister's bat mitzvah. You gave me something to say back in 2005 when my mom and sister really did forget my birthday, and made me try

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[chickadilly]

God. His movies pretty much were my teenaged years.

So sad.

[heidi8]

Yes, so out of the blue!

[quidditchgrrl]

This, this, THIS.

[heidi8]

Thanks. And even with everything I mentioned, I didn't even remember to namecheck the Cusacks, who were both in 16 Candles.

[misscake]

Such a loss for those of us who came of age in the '80s. My entire childhood is shaped by his films.

[heidi8]

It absolutely is. What would the world have been like without him?

Sixteen candles, down the drain...

[karaokegal]

I'm a long way from high school, but I still identify myself and other people by which Breakfast Club character they were. (I was Ally Sheedy.)

[americonedream]

Am so very sad at his passing - the 80s would never have been as good as they were without him.