The Sucker With The Money

January, 2005

The Sucker with the MoneyAlmost from the moment he arrived on the national stage in the late 1920s as a young bumpkin millionaire, Howard Hughes seemed to capture the American imagination, and for more than 50 years thereafter he never relinquished his role as the country's most legendary eccentric. He not only dominated headlines with his escapades, he inspired novels and plays; one movie, Melvin and Howard; and at least half a dozen other films that never got produced, with everyone from Warre...