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IT IS entirely possible that Martin Scorsese will win the Best Film Oscar for this biography of Howard Hughes, thus breaking the duck of America's most lauded filmmaker at the Academy Awards. If he does, we maywell see a wry smile from a man who once said that he was an "in-spite-of-Hollywood director".
If not his best film (Raging Bull was that, with Taxi Driver and King of Comedy in hot pursuit), The Aviator is infinitely superior to his last effort, the otiose Gangs of New York. Just when we thought he might have seen his most fruitful days, Scorsese has come up with another rich study of obsession.See the full content of this document
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Scorsese at Full Throttle
Hughes is a man whom no one will ever understand fully, since he spent the last h...
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