Ah, come on! Hughes died at 70 or 71. How can we talk about a
self-inflicted death for a man in his seventies? With his diet, his
mental instability, and his drug habit, that he lived so long is a
testament to human endurance. How many of his contemporaries outlived
him? Even for a boy born to a rich family, I'll bet he lived longer
than his life expectancy for one born in 1905 or thereabouts. (I don't
have a birth date for him, but he became CEO of Hughes Tool in 1924 at
the age of 19.)

In any event, I enjoyed the movie, and I also recommend George
Marrett's biography of him, which confines itself to the aviator part:
www.warbirdforum.com/hughes.htm

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:21:10 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:47:54 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote in ::



Larry Dighera wrote:

Given the fact that Hughes died in 1976*, and AIDS wasn't discovered
until 1986**, that is an unlikely cause of his death.

The first *known and proven* death associated with AIDs occurred in the mid-50s
in England. They did not know it was AIDs at the time.

Thanks for the data point, but it would be more useful to know when
the first AIDS associated death occurred among Hughes' likely
consorts.