{"id":66,"date":"2005-03-10T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electra\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2005-09-04T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T18:06:04","slug":"the-aviator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/10\/the-aviator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aviator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Hughes was a man of firsts and superlatives. A billionaire, a maverick in Hollywood, a pioneer in defense aeronautics, he alone envisioned the domestic air travel market. He also directed a massive business empire while barricaded inside an office.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by voices and images that didn&#8217;t exist, Howard Hughes struggled with mental illness most of his life. It&#8217;s not clear what exact malady ravaged him, only that he fought the battle untreated and mostly alone.<\/p>\n<p>I consider Howard Hughes an interesting guy, but the Aviator doesn&#8217;t really convey that. A mishmash of his film studio days and plane crashes, the film yields tremendous screen time to Hollywood starlets. There&#8217;s lots of glamor, a little less in the substance department.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s good about this movie:<\/p>\n<p>1) The narrative captures many interesting milestones in Hughes life.<\/p>\n<p>2) Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn. If one had to resurrect Katherine Hepburn, I&#8217;m glad it was Cate. A masterful performance.<\/p>\n<p>3) Leo DiCaprio was, at points, Howard Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: Matinee, DVD\/Video Rental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Hughes was a man of firsts and superlatives. A billionaire, a maverick in Hollywood, a pioneer in defense aeronautics, he alone envisioned the domestic air travel market. He also directed a massive business empire while barricaded inside an office. Plagued by voices and images that didn&#8217;t exist, Howard Hughes struggled with mental illness most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}