timmyjoe, whats it gonna be

I just read this on Variety. I tell ya...my youth keeps dying over and over again in 2009.

RIP, John.

Uncle Buck was his best film

What the fuck?!? Is this early boarding for the Rapture or something?

such a bummer. And so young. And so formative. I think I have seen Sixteen Candles 500 times.

Chad we have a "celebrity death thread title" protocol for a good reason.

terrible news


I grew up with his movies



I think his son became a movie director too

I'll keep on with my bastardized AP/bloggy style, thank you very much.

i think his son has/had a record label. (maybe he has more than one son.)

don't you (forget about him)

goddamn you Bob

How about this?

The films he directed were pretty good, but he sure wrote a ton of crap films over the last decade or so under the alias Edmond Dantes.

Looks like there'll be a little less film work for my dad now.

Some good stuff that I grew up on, including the last great Hollywood stereotype (Long Duk Dong).

Thank you Bob.

this sucks, I don't know anyone who isn't impacted by those films. Some of the most joyous moments in pop culture/film history.

captured teenage ennui, enthusiasm, strife and angst like no other filmmaker. RIP.

This does, however, open the floodgates for countless sequels, and remakes of his films. Which is not cool.

What did he write?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/

Here's every movie from 1990 on:

# Drillbit Taylor (2008) (story) (as Edmond Dantes)
# Beethoven's 5th (2003) (V) (characters) (as Edmond Dantes)
... aka Beethoven's 5th: Big Paw (USA)
# Maid in Manhattan (2002) (story) (as Edmond Dantès)
... aka Made in New York (USA: poster title)
# Home Alone 4 (2002) (TV) (characters)
... aka Home Alone: Taking Back the House (USA: DVD title)
# Beethoven's 4th (2001) (V) (characters) (as Edmond Dantès)
# Just Visiting (2001) (screenplay)
... aka Les visiteurs en Amérique (France)
# Beethoven's 3rd (2000) (V) (characters) (as Edmond Dantès)
# American Adventure (2000) (TV) (characters)
... aka National Lampoon's American Adventure (USA: complete title)

# Reach the Rock (1998) (written by)
# Home Alone 3 (1997) (written by)
# Flubber (1997) (screenplay)
... aka Disney's Flubber: The Absent Minded Professor (promotional title)
# 101 Dalmatians (1996) (screenplay)
# Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (screenplay)
# Baby's Day Out (1994) (written by)
# Beethoven's 2nd (1993) (characters) (as Edmond Dantès)
# Dennis the Menace (1993) (written by)
... aka Dennis (UK)
# Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) (characters) (written by)
... aka Home Alone II (USA: short title)
# Beethoven (1992) (written by) (as Edmond Dantès)
... aka Beethoven: Story of a Dog (Australia: cable TV title)
# Curly Sue (1991) (written by)
# Dutch (1991) (written by)
... aka Driving Me Crazy
# Career Opportunities (1991) (written by)
... aka One Wild Night
# Home Alone (1990) (written by)

So you're saying Edmond got CRAZY paid.


Also, I'll admit to actually liking "Dutch".

I'm not saying he didn't make alot of loot, he just wrote some relatively shitty films that spawned an infinite number of shitty sequels. He also went from being the "King of teen angst" to a writer of blockbuster, crapfest children's movies.

...so you're saying he got crazy paid

Looks like a fat, gay Andrew McCarthy in the obit pic: