John hughes

NEW YORK - Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz.

Famous director and screen-writer John Hughes died due to heart attack on Thursday.

The director of hit films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pretty in Pink was 59 when he collapsed and died while walking in Manhattan, New York on Thursday (06Aug09) Hughes was the father of two children and he happened to move out of limelight in the 1990s to run a farm in his native Illinois.

NEW YORK - The actors made famous by writer-director John Hughes are extolling his talents after his death, calling him influential and "one of the giants" for capturing the youth market in the 1980s and '90s with such favorites as "The Breakfast Club," ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone." Hughes died of a heart attack during a Thursday morning walk in Manhattan, spokeswoman Michelle Bega said.

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