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NEW YORK - Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "The Breakfast Club," ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone, died Thursday, a spokeswoman said.