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Old January 2nd 05, 11:52 PM
C J Campbell
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:08:35 GMT, Larry Dighera
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Hughes inherited millions of dollars and turned them into billions of
dollars. He was a very, very successful businessman. The movie catches
the wild nature of some of his bets. What it doesn't catch (and what
Ms Taylor chooses to gloss over) is that many of them were hugely
successful.


Very true. I greatly admire Hughes as a businessman, yet this is the aspect
of his life that Hollywood seems to find most distasteful, as if the only
people entitled to be rich are movie stars.