Kids, the 80s are gone for good. John Hughes AKA the writer of every best 80s movie with a heart has shuffled off this mortal reel. He was responsible for Home Alone, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, and the National Lampoon Vacation movies, as well as a bunch of others that you probably watched repeatedly on VHS.
He was only 59.
He will have fun with John Candy in heaven.
His IMDB page is
here.