The Amazing Howard Hughes

Tommy Lee Jones put himself squarely on the map as a far more convincing Howard Hughes than Leonardo diCaprio in Martin Scorsese's hopelessly romantic and shamelessly inaccurate 'The Aviator' (with Tovah Feldshuh nothing like the caricature Cate Blanchett made of Katherine Hepburn), while America's number one weirdo's final descent into madness in which the world's richest man ended his days as a bearded, kleenex-wielding shuffling skeleton ironically suffering from malnutrition is also far better depicted.

Hughes' most lasting contribution to film history was not actually the lousy movies he directed but as the back seat driver who wrecked RKO, a crime rarely even hinted at in the many films his antics inspired, but along with his reactionary politics should make his name live in infamy with all serious film buffs everywhere.