"Brat Pack" director John Hughes dies of heart attack (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Filmmaker John Hughes, who made some of the most memorable teen comedies of the 1980s and turned Macaulay Culkin into a major star, died suddenly of a heart attack in New York on Thursday. He was 59.

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"Brat Pack" director John Hughes dies of heart attack (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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