[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f_zSLpZlyJPZwbS3Ei2wZCsejYybVah2Ppy3G7-XQqcw":3,"$fXGMW6yiGrVSbA23opjrsqLGyWZC60HWqT3uzd8rIN8k":14},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},37884,"John Hughes","J",81,"In the summer of 2009, John Hughes died in New York City on August 6th, closing a career that had taken him from the American Midwest through the entertainment industry as a writer, director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.\n\nBorn on February 18, 1950, in Lansing, Hughes grew up and received his secondary education at Glenbrook North High School. He went on to study at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, two institutions that marked his formal academic passage before he pursued work in film and writing. He was a citizen of the United States and worked throughout his career in the English language.\n\nHughes held a notably wide range of professional roles within the film industry. As a screenwriter and writer, he contributed to the development of scripts and stories that reached the screen. He also worked as a film director and film producer, occupying positions both behind the camera and in the organizational structures that bring films to completion. Additionally, he took on work as a film actor, extending his involvement in the medium beyond the roles of writer and director. This breadth of occupation — spanning the creative, technical, and performative dimensions of filmmaking — defined his professional identity across the decades of his career. His work as a writer extended beyond film alone, reflecting a practice that encompassed multiple forms of written output.\n\nHughes died in New York City, far from the Lansing, Michigan birthplace where his life had begun fifty-nine years earlier. His education at Glenbrook North High School and subsequently at two Arizona universities represented the institutional foundations on which his career in American film and writing was built. That career, conducted entirely in English and rooted in United States citizenship, produced a body of work across the overlapping roles of screenwriter, director, producer, actor, and writer. 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It would mean we had reached the final. I’d like to think common sense would prevail and we’d have the use of both of them.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":64,"source":65,"quote_tag":66,"commentary":12},3152746,"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":12},3152741,"A man’s tie should never be louder than his wife.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":12},3152733,"At that age, it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":80,"totalPages":81,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":82},1,9,10]