Posts from arthurarnell in thread „The Aviator“

  • The Aviator

    Hi


    In Howard Hughes - The Untold Story by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske


    The following story is given:-

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    During one night on the town with Jean Peters and John Wayne, who was then making pictures for RKO, Hughes balked at going in to the Desert Inn. "Everybody will be looking at me," he complained. Wayne brought him down to earth. "You a*****e!" said the Duke. "You are with the most beautiful woman in the world. And John Wayne! And they're gonna look at you?" Hughes was so upset by that retort that for months afterwards he wouldn't talk to Wayne.


    I bought the book in 1996 and still haven't read it right through. With William and his knowledge on the board it may be time to revisit it.


    The only thing that I am aware of with regard to Hughes. In England we have an expression that if for instance a soccer manager keeps changing his players around we call him the "tinkerman". With Howard Hughes method of making pictures he must have been the original 'Tinkerman'.



    Regards



    Arthur

  • The Aviator

    Hi Bill


    Yes you are right, facts are now only just emerging about our atomic test all of them years ago. As you say hindsight is a wonderful thing.


    Ref Hughes as a professional what was your opinion of the Spruce goose?


    Regards


    Arthur

  • The Aviator

    Hi


    I have just been reading about The Aviator which is about to come out over here.


    The times gives a pen picture of Howard Hughes life and contains the following.


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    His choice of films also became more eccentric. There is a perverse humour in casting John Wayne as the young Gengis Khan in the Conqueror (1956) and having him brag with a straight face about the tp of his lance. But what was Hughes thinking when he had the production shoot in Utah only 100 miles down wind from a nuclear test site, then have 60 tons of radioactive sand in Los Angeles to match the set for close ups. Memos suggest that hughes was well aware that cast and crew were at risk. Almost eighty per cent of those who worked on the film including Wayne, Susan hayward and the director Dick Powell were to die of cancer



    I don't know what the picture is like our papers are giving it a very good reception.


    Regards


    Arthur