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...adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), he had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 10, 2005 | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

Dartmouth’s senior co-captains Callahan and David Gardner chipped in 17 points apiece, but were unable to prevent their team from losing its fifth straight game for the first time in almost two years. Callahan had a team-high six rebounds, while Gardner, the 6’10 center, led his team with four assists...

Author: By Gregory B. Michnikov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Wins Ivy Opener | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness as bizarre as it was picturesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Looking for Hughes in the High Clouds | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Jean Harlow was (and whether she was as wan and angular as Gwen Stefani plays her), the Turner Classic Movies crowd will enjoy Cate Blanchett's high-pitched impersonation of Hepburn. If you're going to do Kate, do her up grand, lovey. Kate Beckinsale doesn't have the Gardner glow, but her role is mainly nurse to Hughes as he spirals into loopiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Looking for Hughes in the High Clouds | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...face, the idea that multiple universes exist simultaneously in some parallel spheres of being sounds as farfetched as Gardner's biocosm theory. But scientists have been warily edging toward that conclusion from other directions for reasons that originally had nothing to do with the anthropic principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Conundrum | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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