BRAT PACK LEADER JOHN HUGHES DEAD AT 59

September 23rd, 2009 Mackenzie Phillips, eldest daughter of late John Philips (Mamas & the Papas leader) says in an interview with Oprah Winfrey today that she was raped by Papa John on the eve of her wedding. Papa John's original name is John Edmund Andrew Phillips.

September 19th, 2009 PATRICK SWAYZE's cancer battle robbed the DIRTY DANCING star of a chance to become a big screen werewolf. The actor, who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Monday (14Sep09), had been approached to star in First Howl as a movie executive suspected of murder, when he was diagnosed with the disease.

September 15th, 2009 Actor C. THOMAS HOWELL has added his tribute to the late PATRICK SWAYZE, insisting his co-star in three movies was like a big brother to him. The former Brat Pack star featured alongside Swayze in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders in 1983 and the pair went on to star in two more mid-1980s movies - Red Dawn and Grandview U.S.A.

August 27th, 2009 ELLIE GREENWICH, the woman behind some of music mogul PHIL SPECTOR's biggest hits has died from a heart attack, aged 68. The legendary songwriter penned the Ronettes’ Be My Baby and Baby, I Love You, the Shangri-La’s Leader of the Pack and River Deep, Mountain High for Ike & Tina Turner among other huge hits.

August 12th, 2009 British rockers SIMPLE MINDS are planning to honour late moviemaker JOHN HUGHES on their upcoming world tour - by dedicating their classic track DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) to his memory. The track was featured in Hughes' seminal 1985 film The Breakfast Club and is also the title of a new documentary about the director, who died of a heart attack in New York last week (06Aug09) aged 59.

August 12th, 2009 John Hughes mourned at private service in IllinoisLAKE FOREST, Ill. — Filmmaker John Hughes is being remembered by family and friends who gathered in a Chicago suburb for a private funeral.

August 11th, 2009 Actor BEN STEIN paid an emotional farewell to his FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF director JOHN HUGHES at his "very touching" funeral on Tuesday (11Aug09). Hughes passed away aged 59 after suffering a heart attack while out walking in Manhattan, New York last week (06Aug09) - and a host of stars, including Stein, Matthew Broderick and Vince Vaughn, turned out for his private memorial in Lake Forest, Illinois.

August 7th, 2009 The director of hit films like The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pretty in Pink was 59 when he collapsed and died while walking in Manhattan, New York on Thursday (06Aug09) Hughes was the father of two children and he happened to move out of limelight in the 1990s to run a farm in his native Illinois. Curly Sue made in 1991 was his last film as a director, he had also written the screenplays for Drillbit Taylor in 2008’s, and Jennifer Lopez's Maid in Manhattan in 2002 John Hughes was also the man behind the Home Alone and Beethoven film franchises.

August 7th, 2009 John Hughes defined a genre and a generationLOS ANGELES — "Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062.

August 7th, 2009 Famous director and screen-writer John Hughes died due to heart attack on Thursday. He was 59. The last film he directed was "Curly Sue," in 1991.

August 6th, 2009 STEVE MARTIN, MACAULAY CULKIN and MATTHEW BRODERICK are leading the tributes to director JOHN HUGHES, who died on Thursday (06Aug09). Hughes passed away after suffering a heart attack while out walking in Manhattan, New York.

July 24th, 2009 Psychedelic songwriter John Dawson dies at 64SAN FRANCISCO — John "Marmaduke" Dawson, a longtime Grateful Dead collaborator who co-wrote "Friend of the Devil" and developed a devoted following with his psychedelic country group New Riders of the Purple Sage, has died. He was 64. Dawson died Tuesday from stomach cancer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he had retired several years ago, said Rob Bleetstein, archivist for the band.

July 22nd, 2009 Langston Hughes house in Ohio sold in foreclosureCLEVELAND — A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been sold in foreclosure in Cleveland. The 2½-story, wood-frame house on the city's east side was sold at a sheriff's auction in February for $16,667.

June 28th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - The enigma that surrounded Michael Jackson's life continued in his mysterious death as his family gathered at their compound Saturday in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino to demand answers from the doctor who was with the singer when he died. "When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did they inject him, if so, with what?" asked civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, after meeting with the grieving family.

June 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson's toned physique is apparently fake. The 'Twilight' star is said to have a team of make-up artists working on his torso to make him look as though he had a rippling six-pack.