I know it's weird, but I like a good obituary. The really good ones approach high lit status. Molly Ringwald has a nice obit about John Hughes; it's worth the read.
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In the LA Times, Megan Daum has an interesting reflection on the late comedy director John Hughes, and his eccentric cinematic representations of adolescence:
"The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination. It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it." -Richard Feynman
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Here you go:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/opinion/12ringwald.html
Mike might also like this essay, though not really an obituary, on Hughes:
http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
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