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Cronkite's passing is a loss, but not nearly as terrible a loss as his retirement. When I look at what television journalism has become in the last three decades, I want to cry.

jbeall wrote:Cronkite's passing is a loss, but not nearly as terrible a loss as his retirement. When I look at what television journalism has become in the last three decades, I want to cry.

Amen, and as bad as the slippery slope has been it's really in the last 3 years or so where it's hit some contemporary notion of 'bottom'. Was watching CNN the other day where one of the hitherto more respectable 50-something grey-haired heavyweight journalists has his own show where the hand cam makes a point of showing off his sneakers and his back as he spins his girth about while he is banging on about tweets on twitter. It just makes me sad. I want them to report the news with some semblance of seriousness and integrity. That's all out the window as they fall over themselves editorializing. I grew up with Cronkite. I thought he was already dead, but celebrate his memory nonetheless. He kept it real. Would love to hear his thoughts on what tv journalism has become. Outside of Christiane Amanpour going to Iran and hitting these crazies with questions its all been pretty much a slippery slope to the middle.

Yu Hyun-mok, director of An Aimless Bullet.

And Harry Alan Towers, who may have been a pimp and a Soviet spy as well as a schlock movie producer.

Wow, that was unexpected. He definitely left a legacy for film viewers of a certain age. Someone put Kevin Smith on suicide watch

Despite all the awful things said about how difficult of a person he was to put up with, this is really the loss of someone with a lot of talent. Ferris Bueller's Day Off will likely never escape its place in my ten favorite films of all time.

Was this post made with knowledge of this? If not, that's an eerie coincidence.

Will this give Curly Sue some Eyes Wide Shut caché?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the first movie I ever bought. This is really tragic.

domino harvey wrote:Someone put Kevin Smith on suicide watch

Not to mention Richard "Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the greatest film ever made" Roeper.

I actually developed a new appreciation for Hughes after I read Sartre and Beckett in college. Seriously, watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles or The Breakfast Club again and you have No Exit or Endgame with a Simple Minds soundtrack.

Hughes had been secluding himself from the industry for years, and had not been photographed since 2001.

I was just wondering the other week if he had any possible plans for one more film.

I was thinking about that today after the mention of the new Planes, Trains & Automobiles DVD on the worst covers thread. That movie and Ferris stand as absolute comic genius, in my eyes as well as a lot of other people. It's sad that he never took it to the next level, for whatever reason, and just stood on the sidelines.

At risk of heaping any more hyperbole on those two films, I don't know if there is a next level he could have taken it to.

I was never a fan of Ferris, why should I root for this guy, but things like Planes, the Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck, an so much else it is unfortunate that he quit so soon, and had to die now.

You people did notice that Budd Schulberg has also just died, right?

At the risk of sounding somewhat crass, I didn't even know his name until today. John Hughes touched my life much more deeply.

Donald Brown wrote:You people did notice that Budd Schulberg has also just died, right?

No one's stopping you from gushing about him...

Hughes' most wonderful movie heaven is Sixteen Candles despite its stereotypical Asian character. I love this film so much, it just so represents my high school days, even so more than The Breakfast Club. I totally adore Molly Ringwald and Michael Schoeffling (sigh) .. and of course Anthony Michael Hall. And what about the Griswolds? Hughes invented the greatest movie mom and dad.