Filmmaker John Hughes burned brightest in the ’80s, when he defined teen angst in terms of the caste system of the suburban high school experience, a thread that others would pick up again and againHis films were talky, in a good way. Like the kids whose stories he was telling, he let them ramble. Teen self-absorption was treated with reverence, not ridicule. The world might make fun of them, their classmates, their brothers and sisters too, but never John Hughes.  And a generation of kids and future filmmakers like Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow embraced it. Hughes, who died Thursday at age 59, was Continue reading →