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Rob Nolan is a retired Vice Chairman of Creative Services at Leo Burnett Co. in Chicago. John Hughes worked for him from 1975-1979.

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The Early Ferris Bueller: Remembering John Hughes' Years in Advertising

Posted August 11, 2009 | 15:49:20 (EST)

One of the last times I saw John Hughes, he was sitting across my desk at Leo Burnett in Chicago and telling me he was quitting. It was early 1979 and he said he was leaving advertising to write screenplays. His first assignment, he said, was to write a script...

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