I'll miss Michael Jackson, but I'll miss John Hughes more. While going to high school in 1984-1986, his movies defined what it meant to be a student. Kids today have some movies to show them what high school might be like. Some have close, like Mean Girls. Yet nothing, but nothing can compare to films like Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, the Breakfast Club and my personal favorite Weird Science, which I remember seeing half a dozen times in the theater.

With the death of Michael Jackson, some 80's memories passed with him, but with the passing of John Hughes, a great big chunk of that decade is gone. BUT, as long as you lived in that time of the greatest high school movies ever made, that part of the 80's will never, ever be forgotten.

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question?...

Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

Not mine, but I thought some might enjoy this...