John Hughes

摘要

Teen comedy is not a movie rngenre that ordinarily allows for much eloquence or emotional truth. But back in the 1980s, a few films-Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink-perfectly captured the adolescent Zeitgeist. They were the work of John Hughes, the intimate chroni-rncler and confidant of that young generation. His death in Manhattan on Aug. 6, of a heart attack at age 59, came as a shock to those whose growing pains he had so cogently monitored-and to anyone else who appreciates the craft of movie-writing.