Dear Playboy

April, 2005

Flying with the AviatorThe mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote that a hero is a person who pursues his passion no matter where it takes him. This perfectly describes Howard Hughes. Yet in The Sucker With the Money (January), Neal Gabler basically describes him as a nutcase. It's amazing that Hughes held it together as long as he did, considering the many head injuries he sustained in car and plane crashes. I have a theory that he suffered from severe fibromyalgia, a condition that causes "bra...

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