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‘The Aviator’ is still flying high today

‘The Aviator’ is still flying high today

Raymond Thomas Pronk, Staff Writer | February 4, 2024
This is the latest installment in Pronk’s classic film series “Eternally Grateful Great Movies.” “The Aviator” (2004) stars Leonardo DiCaprio playing millionaire Howard Hughes from the mid to late 1920s through the 1940s (1927-1947) when he was making movies in Hollywood, designing new aircraft and buying and expanding Trans World Airline (TWA) to compete with dominant Pan American Airlines. However, the movie does not cover the remainder of his life when Hughes was a recluse and...
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