On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:58:54 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Pilot22a" wrote in message
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I saw it and I thought that the DeCaprio was just a little bit too
effeminate to play a guy like Hughes.

And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit effeminate.


Where did you get that idea?

From what I've read, Hughes was quite the ladies man, and a rather
authoritarian captain of industry. Consider, he was able to finesse
(over the phone) Jackie Cochran's new Gamma (?) from her for a record
flight before it was delivered to her, and when he needed a wife to
parry Noah Dietrich's gambit, he was able to cause Jean Peters to
marry him on a moment's notice. Certainly, his performance before
Sen. Brewster's inquisition revealed a commanding demeanor
considerably the other side of effeminate.