Art critic Robert Hughes dies
Hughes' wife Doris Downes Hughes released a statement this morning saying Hughes had been ill for a long time and died in the Calvary Hospital in Bronx, New York.
August 7, 2009 Writer and director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the teen market with such favorites as ``Home Alone,'' ``The Breakfast Club'' and ``Ferris Bueller's Day Off,'' died Thursday, a spokeswoman said.