Rules Don't Apply Page #8

- Hello?

- Nadine!

- Yes?

Hi, it's Marla.

Marla, hi.

Would you please ask

Mr. Hughes to call me back?

I'm sorry, Marla.

All I can say is

he's gonna be out

of town for a month.

Possibly five weeks.

Anything I can help with?

Well, could you tell

him I've decided

against the agreement

we discussed?

I can't do it.

I just can't do it.

I'll give him your message.

Okay. Thank you.

I used to have a life.

(on radio) Walter O'Malley,

the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers

has announced the team will

be moving to Los Angeles.

Also, a bulletin just in

about Howard Hughes.

Howard Hughes just

announced he's married.

And wouldn't you know,

he married an actress.

The new Mrs. Hughes is

Hollywood actress, Jean Peters.

In other news,

Premier Khrushchev told the United...

Oh, my God.

Jean Peters hit the jackpot!

Sally told me

he was moving to Las Vegas

for a while, but not to get married.

And meanwhile, he's out of town,

and he's got poor Frank and Levar

cooped up in the studio

all day and night.

I'm gonna go down to RKO tomorrow

and tell Levar why you can't believe

anything Howard Hughes ever says.

I've had it with Howard Hughes.

Mamie, I forgot something.

I'll catch up with you later.

- Hey, Mamie.

- (chatter, laughter)

(upbeat music on stereo)

(Howard burps loudly)

Hello, gentlemen.

I don't want anybody knowing

I'm not in Las Vegas.

They cannot know I'm in Los Angeles.

We got some things to catch up on.

Just tell what's his name,

to walk over to the White House

and loan the vice president's

brother $205,000.

Read me back the last page of my memo

on my wife's missing cat.

Yes, Mr. Hughes.

"I have been in Las Vegas

for 37 hours now.

"I have been told there has not been

"one iota of progress

"in Los Angeles in the search

for my wife's missing cat.

"I want somebody who is an expert

"in the ways of animals of this type.

"Los Angeles is not the jungle.

"It is not the Everglades.

It is not New York City

"with the dense population.

"If a zoo had lost some

valuable animal

"in the Los Angeles area,

"there would have been

25 or 30 men

"scouring the countryside,

"men skilled in the habits and

ways of an animal of this kind

"and would have found it by now."

"I feel that there is

absolutely no reason why

"a search should not

have been instigated

"for this animal, equal in any way

"to what would have happened

"if some damned train

had broken down here

"and some leopard or panther

or whatnot had escaped.

"There is absolutely no reason

why a man of my resources

"and having the resources and

organization that I have got,

"there is no goddamned

reason in the world."

"There are many, many, many things

"that could have been done

"in the almost one and a half days

"that I have been here in Las Vegas.

"I hope you will read

this seven times,

"because I have never meant anything

"more sincerely than I mean this.

"Signed, Howard R. Hughes."

It's 26 pages long, Mr. Hughes.

We have four carbon copies.

(sighs)

Hello?

Howard, I'm here.

- You wanted to see me.

- I'm married now, Noah.

Do you still think

I need to be seen

by these TWA people?

Well, you're going to have to let them

look at you eventually, Howard.

Admit it, Noah.

You can't legally commit me

to an insane asylum,

because I have married a woman

that I have known

and trusted for years,

and you know very well

that she would never

give her consent to it.

I love you, Noah,

but you're not my father.

You're fired.

- You've been replaced.

- (line disconnects)

(Frank sighs)

He's lucky to have you, Frank.

(sighs)

Good luck, son.

Don't let him start to think

you're trying to be his father.

The vice president's

brother is apparently

not in Washington, D.C., this week.

We think he's in Miami.

And he will supposedly...

His secretary said he'll be back

sometime in the middle

or end of next week.

So if we need to get in touch

with him or send him anything,

we can do it sometime

towards the middle...

- Frank, Frank, Frank.

- Yes, Mr. Hughes?

Does he know I'm back in Los Angeles?

I don't wanna have to call him again.

(clatters)

I want banana nut ice cream.

Hey. Excuse me.

What are you doing?

What's going on?

- Stella Starlight!

- What are you talking about?

Stella Starlight is a really,

really stupid title

for a really stupid movie.

But not nearly as stupid as I am

- for thinking he'd ever make it.

- What are you talking about?

First, he gives me a lot of

junk about how great I am.

And now I can't get him on the phone.

He hasn't even bothered to

look at my stupid screen test!

- Wait a minute.

- Wait a minute for what?

- Wait a minute.

- Howard Hughes?

Is that who you're waiting for?

I think you should take some time.

And maybe don't try

to advise me on my career.

How could I advise you

on your career?

I have no idea what's

going on in your life or where

you're getting your advice

from. And I'm not asking.

I'm not asking about your ring.

I'm not asking...

(sighs)

Reverend Forbes, banana nut.

You know, I don't know

if I still got a shot at her.

But if anybody does, trust me,

it's the Reverend Frank Forbes

of Fresno.

Stop.

(sniffles)

Mr. Hughes, I think maybe

now is a good time

to deal with the acreage

that I spoke to you about

the canyon off Mulholland Drive.

I've got a plan.

The time for suburban

development has come.

Its time has come... And, and...

Mulholland Canyon is gonna be gold.

And you know what Victor Hugo

once said?

"There's nothing so powerful

"as an idea whose time

- "has come."

- (phone buzzes)

I would like to just drive you

- out there tomorrow and show you.

- Howard, it's Bob Maheu.

On my first day as your new CEO,

I must tell you that if you don't

let these people from TWA see you,

they can make you be

seen by them in court.

Bob. Bob, Bob.

Nobody makes me be seen anywhere.

You got that?

However, I am...

I am making you be seen tonight

in Las Vegas, Nevada,

with our entire staff.

We're all gonna be there,

we're all flyin' in tonight.

We're moving to Nevada.

You wanna know why?

Because I am selling TWA.

Selling TWA?

There's no state tax in Nevada, Frank.

Howard?

And if you're still

afraid of flyin'...

Howard?

You know, you better

get in the car soon,

because it's a three hour

and 47 minute drive.

Howard?

Is that banana nut?

Uh...

Banana nut, sir. Yeah.

(music playing on stereo)

Somewhere

Beyond the sea

Somewhere waiting for me

My lover stands on golden sands

(on speaker) Mr. President,

I know how well you understand

that there is no one who

has done more than I have

to rid Hollywood of communists.

And please allow me

to clarify, once more,

the extreme danger all Americans

will face in living

anywhere near a nuclear test site.

Sincerely, Howard R. Hughes.

Elvis Presley, Pat Boone,

Frankie Avalon, Bobby Darin.

I mean, what do you think a guy

like Bobby Darin makes on something

like "Beyond The Sea"?

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