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  • Tia2 May 9, 2012 @ 12:00 am | delete
    An interesting yet very sad story. Sadly, riches can't buy the true wealth of a sound mind nor the love and care of close family and friends, both are precious & priceless.
  • Tipi Apr 1, 2012 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    Those were some glory days Howard Hughes had.
    I suppose some people the world have not heard of him.
    Nice to stop by here again. Happy April Fools Day! HAFD
  • JaguarJulie Mar 11, 2012 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Watching "The Aviator," it really put into reality all the interesting aspects of this man. It seems he had much sadness in his life. Money doesn't necessarily buy happiness, or so it seemed.
  • Beautiful-Bridal Mar 2, 2012 @ 3:59 pm | delete
    He was a great looking guy and seemed to have it all. What a shame he ended up like that. Nice job!
  • kieranrdblack Feb 28, 2012 @ 12:18 am | delete
    Aviator, Director AND... Actor, what an American champion. His demise was very untimely and sad
  • RCGraphicsDesign Feb 17, 2012 @ 11:13 am | delete
    He was an extremely interesting and strange individual. Thanks for the informative reading and a great lens.
  • goo2eyes Jan 28, 2012 @ 1:55 pm | delete
    how could his family neglect him and leave him in squalor. he did not deserve to die alone. at least, family should have assigned a nurse to take care of him.
  • KimGiancaterino Nov 17, 2011 @ 3:57 pm | delete
    I had a friend who lived next door to the mother of actress Terry Moore. She lived with Howard Hughes in the late 1940s and wrote a couple of books about it. I always thought it was so sad he died alone and neglected.
  • Blonde_Blythe Nov 14, 2011 @ 7:01 pm | delete
    Interesting and very well done lens! I remember hearing about Hughes on the news in his later years. Such a tragic figure!
  • tvyps Nov 14, 2011 @ 12:23 am | delete
    Interesting man. I remember my Dad talking about the "Spruce Goose." I had heard a while back that you could no longer see it, I am not sure if that is the case.
  • jgelien Nov 9, 2011 @ 10:26 am | delete
    What a tragic end to a remarkable life. I enjoyed reading your lens very much.
  • jksterling Oct 5, 2011 @ 1:19 pm | delete
    Very interesting, thank you.
  • Mark Musick Sep 28, 2011 @ 10:57 am | delete
    The long finger-nailed man who died in 1976 as Howard Hughes was a stand-in. Howard was actually living under another identity, given to him by the CIA, living in Alabama. The book, "Boxes, The Secret Life on Howard Hughes," by Douglas Wellman explains what really occurred. Eva McLelland relayed the details of the book to me and I spent 8 years confirming her story.
  • poutine Sep 8, 2011 @ 6:22 am | delete
    I did read about him years ago. What a sad life.
  • ajgodinho Aug 11, 2011 @ 11:35 am | delete
    I recently watched the movie Aviator, starring Leo Dicaprio which was based on the life of Howard Hughes...pretty interesting life, but sad ending. You just never know where life can take you...enjoy every bit of it and stay in the moment!
  • Shadrosky Aug 7, 2011 @ 11:29 pm | delete
    Interesting lens...I saw The Aviator but knew little else about Hughes
  • Tipi Jul 16, 2011 @ 8:36 am | delete
    All that glitters certainly isn't gold, a sad end.
  • Marelisa Jul 5, 2011 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    What a sad ending to such an interesting life. I only had a vague idea of who Howard Hughes was, so I learned a lot from this lens.
  • sandyspider Mar 17, 2011 @ 10:33 am | delete
    Nice write up on Howard Hughes. He was an interesting person.
  • poutine Jan 20, 2011 @ 8:14 am | delete
    I read a book about him years ago and found it fascinating.
  • Nov 16, 2010 @ 8:50 am | delete
    nice bio of a great personality
  • Andrew J. Cipollo Sep 12, 2009 @ 2:51 pm | delete
    Howard Hughes did NOT die in 1976. Summa Corporation, run by the Mormon Church, found a homeless man named Kevin Rowlands wandering the streets of Las Vegas who resembled my father. They put him up on the 9th floor of the Desert Inn. Do you honestly believe my dad would have ever stayed in anything below the penthouse for security reasons? No way.

    Howard Hughes spent a good many years doing research in cybernetics at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California after 1976. I visited him there and we were in touch all the time.

    I was not the only child. I have an older half-brother, Ernie Kanzler, who lives on a yacht in San Pedro, California (928) 301-4965. He is the son of Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn, and was raised by Ernest Kanzler, Sr., the brother-in-law of Edsen Ford.

    Feel free to contact me anytime at (909) 228-4103 for further information.

    You can visit my web site on www.harnessingthegrid.com to learn more.

    Andrew J. Cipollo
  • Howard Robard Hughes IIV Aug 5, 2009 @ 3:21 am | delete
    standard BS about howard...same storys as written years ago.TRUTH is dad had bad kidneys and had to have a blood wash two times a week.He lost his fore arms and hands in the XF-11 and was hidding from the same mobsters he took down with the scarface movie.A more sane person...you`ll never find.The estate mob crew is a rip off via bad judges from way back when in texas...all those judges were later removed for crimes and mob ties.The feds should have stepped in and cleaned up...but I never signed up for the weapons contracts and never would have.Peacemove even Dad joined fighting the AEC in atomic city.That got peace treatees from russia and limited nukes all via Howard Robard Hughes JR.Had we not fought the nukes in the long run it would have been MAD vs MAD and thats what is crazy here not Howard the national defence system itself or the handing over to the DOD by Howard Robard Hughes IIV.
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  • NoBoogieFingers Feb 25, 2008 @ 9:53 pm | delete
    Anyone who started Hughes Aircraft Company had to be a little nuts!
  • kellfinder Aug 29, 2007 @ 3:03 pm | delete
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  • Classic Aug 6, 2007 @ 3:57 pm | delete
    Highly interesting! I gave you 5*s again!

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