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As Paul Harvey Would Say...
By Ed Driscoll · February 25, 2005 09:55 PM
· The Future and its Enemies
"And now you know--[beat]--the rest of the story!" Two articles today look at what was left out of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. Harold Evans examines the brilliant career of Pan Am's Juan Trippe: Everyone who sees the Oscar runaway nominee "The Aviator" will come away with a dark impression of the man Howard Hughes sees as his enemy--a plump Alec Baldwin playing Juan Trippe as the suavely conspiratorial head of Pan Am. The film deserves its acclaim because it captures the romantic and visionary spirit of risk-takers like Hughes who propelled America to new heights--but the image of Trippe as the bad guy has to be retrieved before it congeals in the popular imagination.Meanwhile, John Meroney looks at "Howard Hughes' Last Hurrah"--battling communism in Hollywood: "Do you think if they asked a man if he was a Democrat or a Republican that he would refuse to answer on the grounds that his answer might incriminate him?" said Hughes. "The very fact that this man pleaded his constitutional privilege — that is his admission that he is not talking about politics. If you believe that the Communist party is in the same category as the Democrat party or Republican party, then I think I can answer you in this way: We are not fighting Democrats or Republicans in Korea."Making Trippe a heavy was probably necessary to cast Hughes in the best light. But it's not at all surprising that modern Hollywood chooses to forget Hughes' efforts in helping to fight the war after World War II.
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