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...mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...
...office building and took the papers in 1974. Drosnin, a former reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, insists that he never paid a penny for the notes, which were later validated by the two handwriting experts used by the Hughes organization in the Irving and Dummar cases, and by Robert Maheu, the former Hughes executive to whom most of the correspondence was addressed...
...that Belly had become a literary hit. Said Morgan City Detective Bob Bazet: "When he heard that, he really picked up." "As an entertainer, I'd like to be known just as Melvin Dum-mar-without Howard Hughes," says the former gas-station owner from Cedar City, Utah. Dummar, 37, vaulted out of obscurity after he claimed that in 1967 he befriended a haggard hitchhiker in the Nevada desert, who later turned out to be the eccentric megamillionaire...
Hughes. With that same cheery, golden bantam innocence, Dummar has now launched a Nevada nightclub act. Booked into a two-week stand at the Sahara in Reno, he has included two bittersweet Dummar compositions in his act, The Ail-American Dreamer and Thank You Howard...
Melvin and Howard. An American dreamer, Melvin Dummar, goes for the big score, insisting he is the heir of Howard Hughes. Jonathan Demme directed the screwiest and most original movie of 1980, and deserves a better commercial fate than he has so far received...