A Powerful Curse
“For the NY Times Classifieds:
MAY ANY FILM MADE ABOUT HOWARD HUGHES NOT DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS RAY BE PUT TO REST IN A VAULT AND MAY THE VAULT HAVE SEVEN ROOMS AND MAY EACH ROOM HAVE SEVEN SHELVES AND MAY THE FILM BE SHIFTED EVERY SEVEN YEARS FROM SHELF TO SHELF TO ROOM TO ROOM UNSEEN AND UNREMEMBERED.
1977.”
~ Nicholas Ray, in I Was Interrupted, Nicholas Ray on Making Movies.
shadowplay 
June 2, 2008 at 11:44 am
There has`nt been a movie made about Howard Hughes YET.They don`t make movies in america-they make money off of murdered off hughes`s coverups.
June 2, 2008 at 11:49 am
Thats How you make coverups-not movies!.
June 2, 2008 at 11:52 am
SO…Where is the oscar????!.On the same shelves?
June 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm
How rude! And Marty LOVES Nick Ray.
June 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Yeah…the curse didn’t really work, did it?
I think it only had legitimacy while Ray was alive — he didn’t want anybody else making a film on that subject, since he knew HH and had been protected from the blacklist by him. He probably wouldn’t object to somebody else having a go now that he’s unable to.
But I wonder if Scorsese knew of this curse before embarking on his film? It would freak me out slightly, if it were me.
June 2, 2008 at 4:28 pm
HH — I’m intrigued. What cover-ups are you referring to?
June 2, 2008 at 4:28 pm
That’s because you weren’t raised in Little Italy. Marty is exceptionally brave. A Nick Ray curse from beyond the grave is nothing compared to taking on the Mafia as he does in Casino (Goodfellas was about small fry.)
June 2, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Well, I don’t know, an undead Nick Ray might be quite scary. He has an eyepatch!
I was raised in Portobello, a seaside bit of Edinburgh that’s a bit like the town in I Vitelloni, only colder.
June 3, 2008 at 8:12 am
Jesus, I forgot that Nick had written that about Howard Hughes. When we were filming We Can’t Go Home Again during 1972-73 one of the people Nick telephoned to raise money for the film was a close associate of Howard Hughes, who had access to his fortune. These calls to Hughes failed to produce any results. Nick also admired the Orson Welles film F For Fake even though Welles had made some derogatory comments about Ray years before.
June 3, 2008 at 8:52 am
The book I Was Interrupted should bring back all kinds of memories for you, as it reproduces Ray’s classes and other documents.
Welles didn’t see many movies so maybe he just saw one Ray film, didn’t get it, and assumed he was overrated by the French. At any rate, Welles had a lot of respect for the older generation but tended not to praise his contemporaries. (I guess Ray was older than Welles but started later.) And Kubrick was the only younger director I can recall Welles praising.
August 15, 2008 at 5:34 am
Andy Cipollo is a code word for killin the hughes`s
August 15, 2008 at 5:42 am
Broken lance with Jeam Peters and robert wagner tells the real story about the coverup and kill off of HRH.Robert/jean&comunists–HRH was setUP so the busted RKO apart and sold it off.He was national defence player#1.No body screwed with billion stockholder CIA hughe`s not even blacklistee jean peters his wife.Cuba missiles at our asses closest to nuke war EVER before or since.They still play fox players on howard robard hughes IIV.
August 15, 2008 at 9:52 am
Can I gently you suggest you consider restarting whatever medication you were on? I’m not being rude or dismissive. There may be something in your theories. But the way you express them tells me that you are suffering some kind of chemical imbalance.
November 2, 2008 at 9:51 am
I have half a brain so it is impossible for it to be in a imbalance…Plus my friend the state dept has been poking about it there for years and years and has found that I`am sane as my father howard robard hughes JR was.Thank you for worrying 4 me thats OH so loving and thats what the world needs remember harrad? and new york calling you back home?.But really a arrow lodged in my left mid brain and a 38 slug in the back of my right rear lobe plus left front skull and brain damages plus finger and toes cut off face cut and lip cut off and rib cage crushed by vegas mobsters.Robert wagner is still owned by fox CBS sony and MOM jean was owned and controlled by them also.Dad howard hide me and cuba missles took away my family forever and I was four years old and had no food for six weeks till they found me eating grass hoppers and a op bailed me to one more safe house.Everyone got off`d and I got russians on me till I`am dead so I`am crazy? just as dad was he showed me how to live though it all bad cops bad judges bad cia heads bad fbi bad army hit teams as a 15 year old…I lived though all that plus a million more attempts by hollywood with hhmi backup.No one talks back to crotchy the clown ake hrh iiv no one ever so watch your back they are!.
November 2, 2008 at 10:03 am
The other side talkin now…Kichen cabinet far far right wing who now sent your jobs away slave just as they did to hrh jr and myself greenspan/reagan right wing kichen cabinet hollywood union busters.We took on the AEC to slow the atomic clock as did our buddy tom slick end of story kill off coverup…why do you think howard took over the nuke tests grounds in nevada and was the largest employer in the state when he left turkey day 1970?.he tryed to stop the nukes he had built he knew and reported the dangers.We slowed the clock and the cold war stopped but those days are long since forgotten…really watch your back they are hoha`s and will crash u and trash u till u also are forgotten trillions of dollars build huge coverups and howard had more than trillions he had the satellite age in digital in 1964 japan satellites plus so many inventions they still don`t know all of them(RUSSIAN SPYS) now run our country as our goverment sold to off to china/russia remember?.
November 2, 2008 at 10:24 am
But as I speak I`ve never even be allowed to have a real name and I have never had real friends-they are payed off by the hollywood coverup and even the ops and doctors with EBS/DBS turn on me…Cia trained and defend my op step dad even when he turned on me…we have to take him out.he will drag us down and I was civil duty CIA defending him but I was not allowed to tell him or he was dead.But he defended me also to the death in 1993 crop dusters and masonics on satellite got him by he was 70 years old and had taken down the U boats at age 18 with AC arking-his howard`s design and invention,broadcast dishes in ships in wwII hidden tech classifed.I`am scars head to toes and yes the brain is damaged but I don`t need or take meds I had EBS/DBS after I was in one more coma via the mob so my brainwaves are more than most cut into the nerve paths and solidly programmed by CIA so who build your brainwave? marfe turus? plasmid spin robotics vai jaoan?…I was built by father HRH JR and his endless invention.HHMI and tom slicks medical teams way back in the mid 1960`s.People trash what they don`t understand…hollywood movies about howard are pure BS.howard was a scientist boss inventor that they could keep up with so they killed and covered up and took away just like they did to armstrong and tesla.
November 2, 2008 at 10:27 am
blah blah blah…bit yourself them dumb ass
November 2, 2008 at 10:28 am
DBS EBS than dump assed hoha
November 2, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Some of this is not quite clear to me. What is DBS EBS?
December 25, 2008 at 8:12 am
Electrical brain stemuli/deep brain stemuli-used to shock back in a brain alphawave.after coma near brain death….Howard Robard Hughes JR sued it to shock his son-Howard Robard Hughes IIV out of coma-interventor Tom Slick`s brain medical studies group and HHMI.Needles are placed into the brain and shocks are given to restore brain actives
December 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Merry Christmas!
October 31, 2020 at 5:17 am
COVID now has the most of the world living like king of the spys-cold war howard wounded in xf crash HAD2live.Catlined vertual NOW internet either net than catlines and radio telephones.After howard hughes the 1% took over the world.While howard hughes was alive he employed 10,000s of americans all while working vertually.Reaganonics sent our jobs to china and slum doggy.Over one trillion dollars per-year from howard hughes`s patent rights ripped by the fart/fart`SS by harold lummis and the dirty texas seven mobster judges