C J Campbell wrote:

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:20:56 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote in
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The movie glides tactfully over his bisexuality, now proven,
though Charles Higham's hastily written and mostly hostile
biography of Hughes ...

Does no one see a possible reason for skepticism within this sentence?
How can anything be "proven" by a "hastily written and mostly hostile"
source?


I agree. Apparently it is Mr. Higham who also speculated that Hughes
succumbed to AIDS, a conclusion I find highly suspect. Without
reading his book, I suppose it's impossible to know his sources for
these allegations.


I found one site that said where he got it, but I cannot find it again. It
looked like a third hand account, at best.

Nevermind that Hughes died a decade before AIDS appeared, or perhaps
recognized as such.