The first phase of jazz was characterized by melodic improvisation. In its second phase improvisers dealt with harmony and, in the current phase, density is the improviser's concern. So says Anthony ...

Jason Diamond tried to write a biography of John Hughes, director of classic '80s teen movies, but along the way, the story became more about his... The elusive dream of adolescent empowerment has ...

Hughes himself once told a journalist that he wrote the script "on July 4th and 5th of '82," and people in his orbit recalled him saying that to them contemporaneously. But, as with many scripts, it ...

John Hughes (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including ...