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Was this billionaire recluse truly mad?
Features correspondent
Howard Hughes is the archetypal super-rich hermit, said never to have trimmed his nails and to have kept urine in jars. But who was he really? Nicholas Barber takes a look.
It takes a brave director to tackle a life story that Martin Scorsese has already put on screen, but that’s what Warren Beatty has done in Rules Don’t Apply. As well as writing, directing and producing the film – which he has been planning for 40 years – Beatty stars as Howard Hughes, the eccentric Texan aeronautics pioneer and Hollywood mogul who was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Scorsese’s The Aviator.
But Beatty needn’t worry too much about comparisons. Rules Don’t Apply is set in , a decade after the Scorsese biopic finishes, so it could be seen as a de facto sequel. The inventor, film producer and eccentric recluse billionaire who, according to legend, was crippled with obsessive-compulsive disorder in his final years and barely seen by anyone, Hughes has popped up in many films and TV shows from Melvin and Howard to The Rocketeer.
He is both a fantasy figure of the dashing young tycoon playboy and a cautionary tale about the corrosive power of wealth. David Thomson, the cinema historian, argues
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Strange bedfellows: Howard Hughes, the CIA and a lost Soviet sub
The American eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes, wasn&#;t afraid to make expensive investments in new technologies. So when he announced in that he was going to build a giant ship to mine manganese nodules from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, few were surprised. But the ship had a very different – and top secret – mission.
It’s April 13, , and a most unusual ship has begun its maiden voyage from Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock, in Chester, Pennsylvania, down the Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean.
It was so big it couldn&#;t sail though the Panama Canal, and the giant derrick on the top had to be demounted for it to pass under most bridges. The Hughes Glomar Explorer was said to be specially designed to extract manganese nodules from the ocean floor. But it was a CIA financed ship specially designed to raise a sunken Soviet sub from nearly metres of water. Photo: Ted Quackenbush, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA
The ship is jaw-droppingly large – meters long, about the size of a battleship. It has a huge tower and derrick on the top that look a little like a cross between a kid’s Erector set and a mini Eiffel Tower.
The midsection of the ship contains an enormous hidden well that co
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