"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:07:44 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit
effeminate.


Where did you get that idea?


I suppose I was thinking of Hughes' bisexuality.


This is the first mention of that I have heard. Do you have a source
to cite?

"Howard Hughes, the Secret Life" by Charles Higham. Several of the movie
reviews mention it also. For example, OC Weekly describes Hughes'
bisexuality as now proven, but they seem to question whether Hughes ran into
as many "dark handsome men" as Higham alleges. Some of the reviews mention
Hughes' relationship with Cary Grant. Some of the reviews even go so far as
to suggest that Hughes' death was AIDS related.

One reviewer goes the other way -- saying that Hughes' germ phobia must have
prevented him from having sex with anyone, ever, which seems unlikely.

Perhaps 'effeminate' is the wrong choice of words. (What is 'effeminate,'
anyway? Any definition of it must be subjective.) Perhaps I should have said
"decadent."