Comments on: When Howard Hughes Was Central to the Plot of a James Bond Film https://popculturereferences.com/when-howard-hughes-was-central-to-the-plot-of-a-james-bond-film/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Thu, 09 Nov 2023 06:07:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/when-howard-hughes-was-central-to-the-plot-of-a-james-bond-film/#comment-14539 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 06:07:32 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5964#comment-14539 In reply to Sir A1.

Oh man, can you even imagine that? Broccoli would supply Hughes would copies of each of the Bond films when they came out, imagine THAT awkwardness.

]]> By: Sir A1 https://popculturereferences.com/when-howard-hughes-was-central-to-the-plot-of-a-james-bond-film/#comment-14537 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 02:35:54 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5964#comment-14537 It would have been hilarious if they had Hughes the way he was back then, all long stringy beard and hair and Fu Manchu nails with Kleenex boxes for shoes, side-by-side, tossing jars of his own urine at Blofeld.

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/when-howard-hughes-was-central-to-the-plot-of-a-james-bond-film/#comment-14530 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:19:07 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5964#comment-14530 Yeah, I think you’re spot on.

]]> By: Fraser https://popculturereferences.com/when-howard-hughes-was-central-to-the-plot-of-a-james-bond-film/#comment-14528 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:04:41 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5964#comment-14528 I suspect the Goldfinger link is why the early scene where Bond shows off his knowledge of diamonds parallels the scene where he talks to M about gold in Goldfinger.

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