RIP John Hughes
 

Very sad to hear about director John Hughes' death. He died of an heart attack in New York aged only 59.

He directed and/or scripted such successful movies as "The Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day off", "Uncle Buck", "Weird Science" and "Home Alone".

I liked pretty much most of his 1980s and early 1990s work and they are all childhood favourites really. "Lampoon's Vacation" was especially a fantastic film. Must have seen it in the region of 50 times whilst growing up. My favourite John Hughes movie and probably my favourite comedy movie of all time has to be "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", absolutely wonderful and it works on so many levels.

Hughes was one of Hollywood's greats in my opinion.

According to IMDB John Hughes wrote 5 episodes of Delta House, the show that had Jim Steinman's Delta House Theme which then became Deadringer For Love.

It wasnt the other way around? Dead Ringer becoming Delta House Theme, and not Delta House Theme becoming Dead Ringer?

Personally I dont know, but I found this on Google:

http://realmofdreams.com/steinman/sounds.html

"There was a short lived TV version of the movie Animal House, called Delta House. Jimmy was tapped to write the theme song, which was basically a recycled version of the Dead Ringer tune. The credits list Jimmy only as the music writer and not the lyrics. But if you listen you can hear some recycled Jim lyrics, which can only lead one to assume Jimmy helped write the lyrics. An interesting side note is that Meat had been asked to play Bluto had Belushi turned the role down."

The Delta House Theme was released as a promo single in 1979. Of course, Dead Ringer for Love could have been written before that time, but who knows.

Nope :nope:

I know Jim likes to recycle, but to write Deadringer pre-1979 to give the tune to a TV series with completely different lyrics, to then turn it back into Deadringer for Meat in 1981, kinda fries the mind of impossibility.

Yeah, I think you're right :-)

What kind of strange site is realmofdreams.com by the way? They have a fake Meat Loaf interview there who dishes both him and Desmond Child...

http://realmofdreams.com/steinman/sounds.html
http://realmofdreams.com/steinman/so...3interview.mp3