Hughes was born in Texas on December 24, 1905. His parents, Allyn and Howard Hughes Sr., gave him the nickname Sonny, “Sonny.” His father was in search at that time promising projects— business was going so-so. His mother, a brilliant and witty woman before her marriage, became fanatically closed to him after Sonny was born. The boy was late for school over and over again: before leaving, Ellin had to check his ears, teeth, nails, and toilet results. Sonny's entire body was subjected to meticulous inspection—he had no personal space left.

Meanwhile, the invention of a new type of drilling machine paid handsome dividends for his father. Life looked great. Sonny tried to imitate his dad - successful businessman. At twelve, he attached parts of a steam engine to his bicycle and thereby formed a kind of children's motorcycle. Sonny even let his schoolmates ride him, though for a bribe of a few cents.

At the age of sixteen, young Howard loses his mother - she, who had been afraid of illness all her life, did not wake up from anesthesia after a minor operation. Two years later, his father dies of a heart attack. Relatives plan to take care of him until he comes of age, and therefore manage his fortune. However, Howard presents the judge with a law according to which even at the age of 19 he can still have access to his money. The outcome of the review is determined by the golf game won by the judge. So, Howard has a huge fortune - the inheritance of his father, who became rich shortly after his birth - and brilliant prospects. He marries his former classmate Ella, seducing her with substantial money. After the wedding, they spent most of their time separately. A few years later, Ella left her husband, citing the fact that he was ignoring her. Howard had to pay her more than a million dollars in compensation. Howard formulated his goals as follows: he wants to become the best golfer in the world, the best pilot and the best movie producer.

He never became the greatest golfer, but he left his mark on the history of aviation and cinema. His first World War I comedy, Two Arabian Nights, won an Oscar for its director, Lewis Milestone. Inspired by the success, Howard himself directed the next film, “Hell's Angels,” dedicated to the same First World War. For filming, he purchased 78 aircraft - they were supposed to participate in the air battle scene.

Photo: Still from the movie “Hell’s Angels”

Three pilots died during filming; Howard himself miraculously survived. The cost of the film was about $3.8 million. And, although it was a huge success, breaking box office records, becoming one of the brightest projects in cinema against the backdrop of the Great Depression, one and a half million were irrecoverable losses. Soon Hughes learned with amazement: he was ruined. The inheritance, which seemed inexhaustible, came to an end. I had to sell off the planes and take business seriously. More precisely, the manager is in charge of the business, and Howard himself is busy with a more interesting task: he bought a brand new Boeing from the military and decided to make it the fastest plane in the world. The most interesting thing is that the company, left to itself, soon began to make a profit again and the threat of ruin passed Hughes as suddenly as it had come.

Howard, again, is busy with completely different things, more interesting ones. What could be better than the beginning of a romance with aviation, and soon with the girl who will become the love of his life, according to many. (However, later this title was attributed to both Ava Gardner and Jean Peters, Howard’s subsequent lovers). He flies his “amphibian” all over America and one day, upon landing, he meets a young actress with a thin waist and a daring, chiseled face. This is the future superstar Katharine Hepburn. Like Howard, she was odd. She wore trousers, not out of shock value, but because it was warmer and more comfortable for her. In college I smoked on the roof in the nude. There were rumors that she didn't even get her nails done! By the way, she played golf no worse than Hughes himself.

They almost got married. However, Katherine, like Howard, wanted to become famous too much. And when she had problems - films with her participation were reluctantly taken into theaters - Catherine left everything, including her fiance, and went to the East Coast of America . Howard stayed at Western. They were still good friends.

“Howard and I were certainly an odd couple. To be honest, he was the smartest among unemployed men, just like I was among unmarried women. We were a colorful couple. And it’s natural that we were together, although now it seems to me that we were too similar. We were from the same street, so to speak. We grew up free. We both had an insane desire to become famous. It seems to me that this was the main thing in our characters. Those who want to become famous are essentially alone. Or they should be,” Katherine concluded in her memoirs.

During this time, Hughes was beginning to lose his hearing. The reason for this was one of the plane crashes that involved an eccentric billionaire. Then, during treatment, doctors generously fed him morphine and codeine - and Howard became addicted to them. In 1941, he was being treated for syphilis, filming the action film "Outlaw" and trying to invent an invisible bra for Jane Russell, who played main character: She had impressive curves, and Howard wanted to show them off in all their glory. True, his creative search was not successful.

“I understand - you are doing everything to show off Miss Russell’s breasts. But I just want to say that she looks fake, which she really isn't. I want her breasts to move naturally and not stiff like cement. This is an engineering problem, and I will deal with it personally,” he said.

Photo: Still from the film “Outside the Law”

During the war, Howard's Hughes Aircraft company was not involved in supplying aircraft. The government representative who inspected it made a merciless and precise diagnosis: it was just a hobby of the owner. However, the company supplied cartridge belts. At the same time, Howard was developing an interceptor for the US Air Force called the D-2. Work was going hard. It was demonstrated to the president's son Elliot Roosevelt in 1943, and he was impressed - but the plane was not yet going to leave the ground. Another task was the development of the Spruce Goose, a large flying transport for soldiers. Work on it lasted for four years.

Hughes suffered a nervous breakdown from the intense work. For several weeks he did not leave home and did not communicate with anyone. He happened to fly without warning over America. One day he left the house and disappeared - the police discovered him, mistaking him for a homeless person. But the Spruce Goose was not even ready for the end of the war. A scandal broke out, Hughes was accused of embezzlement and bribes: after all, he received $40 million from the government. Only in 1947 did Hughes demonstrate the performance of his brainchild, but the aircraft was not accepted for service. It was only suitable for standing in a hangar.

His mental illness is getting worse. He locks himself in a small house, covers the windows with black curtains, hides from light and sound, and does not let strangers in. His fear of germs, clearly inherited from his mother, reaches its climax. Glimpses sometimes arise; in 1957, he married actress Jean Peters. But soon he returns to his house, to his refuge.

His old age was crazy and scary. Hughes was constantly accompanied by a manic horror of germs, he washed his hands with napkins until they bled, he demanded that the surrounding staff strictly follow the instructions he invented for cleanliness, even for cutting meat and vegetables into certain size cubes.

He wrote notes to himself, did not change his bed or clothes for months, did not wash or shave, but constantly rubbed his hands with napkins, and carried boxes of them on his feet. His wife divorced him. At some point, he begins to feverishly travel, changing one city to another - and finally, quietly dies on the plane that takes him from Acapulco to Houston. His body, lowered onto American soil, has a completely wild and unrecognizable appearance - an FBI agent even had to take fingerprints to make sure that it was the same Howard Hughes, the merry fellow, the playboy, the idol of thousands of people. He had no children, and his will was not found. For many years, relatives quarreled over Hughes's inheritance, but he himself continued to live in the memory of Americans, in art, in cinema, serving as the prototype of more than one hero. For example, the legendary “Iron Man” Tony Stark from Marvel comics - as you know, a genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist.

Anna Dolgareva

IN Lately I somehow often hear questions from different people who are trying to understand what I do. Some people think that I am a playmaker, others that I work in a travel agency, others are sure that I secretly breed kittens from everyone.

So, Yana.

I am 24 years old, I live in St. Petersburg. I was born here, and spent my entire adult life studying the streets of Dostoevsky’s books.
I, like many children, attended kindergarten, after which I logically went to first grade. In 2007 I graduated from high school secondary school No. 521 with in-depth study of mathematics and programming. But my soul already told me then that mathematics and codes were clearly not my thing.

That is why I entered the Interregional Institute of Economics and Law at the Interparliamentary Assembly of the EurAsEC, majoring in advertising. Having successfully studied there for 5 years and received a diploma with honors, I decided that it would be nice to get a second diploma. In 2013, I proudly put my second diploma from St. Petersburg in my desk drawer. State University Technology and Design in the direction graphic design. The job is done, it's time to move on.

What am I doing now?

1. I am a wordsmith!

My main activity is words. I do everything related to words. First of all, of course, I am a writer (not like Tolstoy or Chekhov, but I strive to someday become the same as them). I've been writing since I was 4 years old. By the way, here is my very first poem, written just in my youth (4 years old - not bad):

I'm warming myself under the window
I warm myself by the lamb
I want walnut from the lamb forever from the lamb.
Pad Aknom
I honestly
I don't know here
This city.

Very philosophical, I think!

In addition to prose (now I write only that, I have closed poetry for myself), I write words for sale. I am a professional copywriter and have been doing this type of work for 7 years now. During this time, I managed to write more than 12,000,000 letters and complete more than 200 large projects. I founded my own copywriting studio "SlovoForma": http://vk.com/slovoforma

2. I'm a traveler!

How many countries have I already visited? Not so much - only 25. So there are still uncharted lands ahead of me, which means a lot of new stories and reports with photos and videos.

3. I am a philosopher

Well, yes, who doesn’t like to chat in the kitchen about the meaning of life? I love:)

That's all. No more secrets and riddles. Just 3 points and you know everything about me.

Of course, there are still a lot of additional pros and cons of mine, my hobbies, interests and desires with dreams. But this is something that does not fit into the topic of this post.

And now I will try to answer the top 5 most popular questions that I get asked.

Question 1. Can I cooperate with you?

It’s not just possible, but necessary! Of course, if the topic of cooperation concerns advertising, copywriting or design, I am always at your service!

Question 2. Can you do something for free?

Can. For example, take a photo of yourself and send it by mail :) But seriously, you must understand that any work must be paid. Otherwise, what's the point of working? Charity is a completely different topic.

Question 3. How do you manage to work and travel?

It's simple. Most of my work is freelance. What does it mean? Yes, this means that I can work from anywhere globe, if only there was internet. Therefore, I can easily combine the first and second.

Question 4. Do you have a Youtube channel?

Yes, but I'm not a blogger. On channel You can find a video about my travels.

Question 5. Why do you need all this?

So that life is not boring :)

Here are about 4,000 characters about who I am and what I do. I could write a lot more, but this post is not my memoirs, so I chose a more modest position, telling only the most important things about myself. I hope that I have answered many questions that interest you. Thanks for reading :)
I was with you. Who else? :)

This is how it happens, you go to someone’s colorful Instagram, you’ll be amazed at how much the person travels, how well he knows the composition of the frame, what rich life lives. And the biography says: “photographer, model, writer, actor, singer, etc.” Well, you think - talent, nothing less. And hundreds of thousands of subscribers, zombified watching the man-orchestra video on an empty stomach and before bed, seem to agree.

And then it turns out that your colleague also has a similar account, who really doesn’t waste time, takes vacations wisely, and has countless hobbies. But for you, first of all, he is some kind of Maxim. Possibly a graduate of Moscow State University. It is known that loving husband and an exemplary father. The business card says that he is an analyst (although who among us is not an analyst). But Maxim defined himself as a “blogger” and, perhaps, when meeting him, he introduces himself as such.

Elevator-pitch is a format where you need to sell your project during an elevator ride, that is, in no more than a minute, and speed-dating will take almost the same amount of time, when all communication is limited to four minutes. But how can you fit your entire life into one word or one phrase? Yes, not all of us are worthy of an article on Wikipedia, where one could list: “Honored...”, “People’s...”, “...Order of the Red Banner...”. And yet, what to choose?

Who is Griboyedov in the first place? For some - a poet and playwright from school curriculum, for others - the author of a waltz in E minor, for others - a diplomat and Persian peacemaker, for others, probably, a canal in St. Petersburg. What, for example, should we do with Charles Perrault, who wrote poems and worked at court all his life, and at the age of 71 decided to start writing fairy tales? It’s much easier to label someone as “divorcee,” “henpecked,” or “sneaky.”

On Conan Doyle's grave it is written "Knight [Cavalier]. Patriot, doctor and writer,” just above the epitaph “True steel, straight blade.” It is believed that the engraving was made at the request of the widow, and, therefore, the choice of priorities in the biography of the writer, who was also a political activist, a Freemason, often played cricket and sought revelation in esotericism. Moreover, "Dr." Conan Doyle called himself a failed ophthalmologist and practiced medicine only briefly after his studies, and he “wrote while waiting for patients,” which allows us to judge the extent of these breaks.

The famous British designer Alexander McQueen could not come to terms with the death of his mother and committed suicide - does this mean that his defining word was “son”? In my pedigree, opposite the year of birth and life expectancy of my ancestors, it says “tailor”, “housewife”, “military”, but is this how they wanted to be remembered? For example, my aunt, who achieved significant career success in a completely female profession in Russia, considers her main achievement to be “a crazy mother”, and her main project: “a son, and another son.”

10 years ago I was a schoolboy, 5 years ago I was a student, now all sorts of abbreviations from the series “master of this” and “certified this” are starting to be added to my last name in my email signature, but in someone’s memory I’m still a fat, bespectacled man, and to his colleagues - “that Russian.” Although adjectives are not enough to stand out from 8 billion people, I would probably choose one for myself that at least described my motivation for life. For example, “curious.”

How would you describe yourself in one word?

Movies about superheroes have long been a part of our lives. People with superpowers created in comics allow us to believe in the best, in the victory of Good over Evil, and in our own strength. In addition, characters often give us sparkling jokes that are part of the active vocabulary and are passed on from mouth to mouth. Let's look at the most successful examples of humor from the Marvel universe. C"mon!

Jokes from the movie "The Avengers"

Steve Rogers: "Big man in a suit of armor... Take that away and what are you?"
Tony Stark: "Hmm... Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."
Steve Rogers: "Big guy in a armored suit. And who are you without him?
Tony Stark: "Hmm... Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

Tony Stark: "If we can't protect the Earth you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it."
Loki: "How will your friends have time for me when they're so busy fighting you? *directing staff into Tony's chest to bewitch his heart but abutting against his nuclear pile* It usually works."
Tony Stark: "Well, performance issues, you know, not uncommon. One out of five..."
Tony Stark: “If we fail to protect the Earth, rest assured, we will avenge it.”
Loki: “How can your friends find time for me if they are busy fighting you? *points the staff at Tony's chest to enchant his heart, but runs into a nuclear reactor.* It usually works."
Tony Stark: “Well, problems with magic tricks are not uncommon, you know. One of five…"

Woman: "Director Fury, the Council has made a decision."
Director Fury: "I recognize the Council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it."
Woman: "Director Fury, the Council has made a decision."
Director Fury: "I understand that the Council made a decision, but given the fact that it is an idiotic decision, I chose to ignore it."

Tony Stark: "When they come, and they will, for you..."
Loki: "I have an army."
Tony Stark: "We have a Hulk."
Tony Stark: “When they come, and they will come, for you...”
Loki: "I have an army."
Tony Stark: "And we have the Hulk."

Jokes from the movie "Iron Man"

Journalist: "You've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?"
Tony Stark: "Absolutely ridiculous, I don't paint."
Journalist: “They call you the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to this?
Tony Stark: “Total nonsense, I don’t draw.”

Tony Stark (to robo-fireman): "Lack of better option, dummy, is still on fire safety. If you’d ask me again, and I’m not on fire, I’m donating you to a City College."
Tony Stark (to firefighter): "Not yet." best option, fool, for the problem with fire safety. And if you ask me about this one more time, and I don’t get burned, then I’ll donate you to City College.”

Tony Stark (staying in a suit of Iron Man): "You know, the question I get asked most often is: "Tony, how do you go to the bathroom in a suit?" *pausing with a great pleasure on his face* Just like that."
Tony Stark (while still in the Iron Man suit): “You know, the question I get asked most often is: “Tony, how do you go to the toilet in a suit?” *freezes with an expression of extreme pleasure on his face* So I walk.”

For successful study foreign language The material should not only be useful, but interesting and relevant. Science fiction films about superheroes are a popular franchise, are released annually and reflect the realities modern world. Watching Marvel movies, you can hear live English speech, modern slang and the most commonly used expressions. And an online tutor, who can be found on our website, will help you understand the jungle of humorous battles between Iron Man and Captain America. He will individually develop a program that suits your interests and preferences, which will make learning easy, relaxed and effective!

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