HOWARD HUGHES FLEW BOTH WAYS
A scandalous bio of Howard Hughes looks set to bring The Aviator down to earth.
Capitalizing on the success of Martin Scorcese's movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes, and is nominated for BEST PICTURE at tonight's Academy Awards, author Darwin Porter presents new allegations about the billionaire's shady dealings with some of the biggest names of the 20th century.
Porter adds some baroque touches to the rumors of Hughes's bisexuality, claiming that he bedded leading men James Dean, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. And he allegedly paid a million dollars in hush money after being arrested with a male prostitute in the 1950s.
Porter also says Hughes directed a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe in a lost "blue movie" in 1949. (And apparently, he gave Lana Turner syphilis for good measure.)
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Hughes led a life of almost unprecedented debauchery, at least for his era. This biography documents that corruption and the A-list legends who collaborated. Hughes’s sexual and emotional odyssey is described frankly and even graphically, without apologies to the faint of heart. Throughout the unimaginable changes that affected America between Hughes’s birth in 1905 and the sinister circumstances of his death in 1976, this biography gives an insider’s perspective about what money can buy--and what it can’t.
Hughes emerges as the century’s greatest Lothario, with origins that included a devouring and incestuous mother, an indulgent but absent father, and seductions of the greatest all-star cast of lovers--male and female--ever assembled in a single lifetime.
Hughes feverishly seduced some of the world’s greatest women, but in this epic biography, he is also dragged kicking and screaming out of the closet. As his pimp, Johnny Meyer, once said: “Bossman was an equal opportunity seducer. The gender of his victim didn’t matter. He had just one requirement: Beauty.”
Thanks in part to these revelations, the canon of Hollywood legend will never be the same. The author’s rundown on the relationship of Hughes with Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn challenges virtually erything that has ever been filmed or written about those famous figures.
Howard Hughes: Hell's Angel
by Darwin Porter
ISBN 0-9748118-1-5
814 pages plus and index and 175 vintage photos. $26.95
Copyright 2005
Blood Moon Productions
Monday, February 4, 2008
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I wish bisexuality would become more popular for men. There is so much negative thinking today--perhaps more so than when I grew up in the 50's 60's. Don't get me wrong, there is more acceptance of gay males than ever, but today they definitely want you to make a decision other than bi-sexuality. Incidentally, my research shows that most likely Howie was the main male player in Cary Grant's life after his breakup with Randy Scott. And the breakup was worse than typical male-female bullshit with Grant threatening to ruin Scott's acting career if he didn't get their lovely beach house in Santa Monica.
PeeYuck: Homosexuals are disgusing. And it's a shame, all this Hollywood crap is so privelent.
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