THE JOHN HUGHES FILES

The late Christine Gieseke, creator of the John Hughes Files Web site.

The John Hughes Files was very early to the Internet, 1996, the earliest year that personal Web sites, in any significant numbers, appeared on the Web. I first encountered the site when looking for additional ideas for the Tavern's obituary to the filmmaker who produced Mary Stuart Masterson's Some Kind of Wonderful. I spent over two hours exploring Ms. Gieseke's comprehensive Web site about the life and career of John Hughes. By this time, 2009, Christine was no longer making major updates to the site as adult responsibilities took over more of her time, including several sites she was maintaining for businesses in the Minnesota region. After awhile, I stopped visiting the site for a few years, but looked for it while checking on archived pages of the FYI page early in 2019. That was when I found out the site was gone except for copies in The Wayback Machine, and that Christine Gieseke passed away in September 2012.

 

THE FYI ENTRY FROM PAGE 18 OF THE ARCHIVES THAT ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF JOHN HUGHES

 

 JOHN HUGHES, CREATOR OF SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL, DIES OF SUDDEN HEART FAILURE

LEAVES LEGACY OF A PROLIFIC MOVIE MAKER

Entry Date: 8/7/2009

Director, Producer, and Screenwriter John Hughes

It has been 22 years since the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful made so many past and present visitors to this site fans of Mary Stuart Masterson and the character she portrayed in the movie, Watts. Mr. Hughes passed away suddenly while taking a walk in Manhattan, where he was visiting relatives. He leaves behind his wife, Nancy, two sons and four grandchildren. Born in 1950, Hughes started his career as a copywriter for an advertising firm, working on such campaigns as Johnson's Floor Wax and other high-profile brands. He started in film as a screenwriter for the National Lampoon movies, and then began making his own mainstream movies, concentrating, at first, on the trials of adolescence and the social caste systems in public high schools. For a fine retrospective of John Hughes' movie making career, visit The John Hughes Files, a huge database of information about all of Hughes' work. The site was started in 1996 by a college coed who was inspired while down with the flu and unable to attend classes. She spent an entire day watching John Hughes movies on video and decided to start the site. The John Hughes Files has been on-line for nearly 13 years, originating in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

THE JOHN HUGHES FILES

 Note: The link above is no longer functioning. To access the John Hughes Files on THE WAYBACK MACHINE, follow the link below to the Internet Archives and enter the URL above the link into the search engine.

http://www.riverblue.com/hughes

 

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PAGES FROM THE JOHN HUGHES FILES

 

Christine announces the death of John Hughes.

 

How the front page of the site looked in 1998 and 2000.

 

The Yahoo News review of The John Hughes Files.

Front page following up on the funeral and fan reaction to the passing of John Hughes.

 

 

 

Christine celebrates ten years of the site.

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