I don't hate him I just do see anything that so attractive, I am a guy. Maybe a woman's perspective will nswer this for
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tickner2-1 — 20 years ago(January 28, 2006 09:35 PM)
Hughes went out with a lot of women and he wasn't neccessarily interested in their intelligence more their physical attributes .
But one of his great loves was Katharine Hepburn - she didn't look like any his other girlfriends or lovers and yet both Katharine and Howard were both very intelligent and apparently got on very well . She was one of the great loves of his life and one of the few people where the relationship didn't end badly ie they still remained friends
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Traianus — 19 years ago(January 05, 2007 10:59 PM)
"I agree with you that the women were not going out with Howard because of his money."
So, if his dad had never invented that drill bit, and Howard hadn't had all that money to start out with and had instead been born into poverty in Humble, Texas and had had to get a job somewhere5b4 and then try and survive through the Great Depression without an inherited fortune do you think Jean Harlow, Kate Hepburn, Ava Gardner, etc. would've been so interested in him?
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herbertanchovy — 19 years ago(January 13, 2007 07:25 AM)
I agree, the money would have had some bearing. that and the fact he was a big user of "the casting couch". He employed people at one stage to "talent spot" likely women he could enjoy- usually busty teenagers- he'd set them up in a house where he would groom them promising to make them a star if they came up with the goods. fair play, if I had that sort of cash I'd probably be the same.
Look at someone like hugh hefner. yeah, in real life beautiful young women always go for 80 year old men, dont they? or in the UK someone like Chris evans or mick hucknall who really arent attractive, but are very wealthy and always have an attractive woman on their arm. chris evans has even acknowledged this- a newspaper headline said "what is 80million deal Chris's attraction?" he read this out on air and said "I think they've answered their own question!"
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john_doe_197579 — 19 years ago(January 20, 2007 08:53 PM)
He was tall, dark and handsome. His money and fame gave him power that made the tall, dark and handsome man even more attractive. Did you all know there is a shopping area in Los Angeles named after him? Crazy.
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kinghereafter — 18 years ago(August 27, 2007 07:39 AM)
I suppose Hughes being an innovator in both aviation and film had something to do with women being attracted to him. Remember he made the first multimillion dollar movie. He had the drive, ambition and ability to go where no one had gone before. Also, his fame was most likely attractive to some women as well. The person most similar to Hughes today, that I can think of, is Richard Branson.