John Hughes, the man behind the cam in such films as "Pretty in Pink", "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Planes Trains and Automobiles", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "National Lampoon's Vacation" , and "Home Alone". John Hughes was also a contributing writer to "Animal House".
And those were just his hits.
If you were a young person living in the western world in the 1980s you were affected by this man.
He died today while taking a morning walk in Manhattan, and was fifty nine years old.
I only know this man through his films, and can only respond by saying - thank you for the incredible movies.