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| | washingtonpost.com: 'Aviator' Feels Like Autopilot |
 | | Here's what "The Aviator" means to do: duplicate the elusive magic of "Citizen Kane." Instead of then-dashing Orson Welles (who was 25 at the time) as a fictionalized, larger-than-life version of William Randolph Hearst, Scorsese's film has Leonardo DiCaprio (now 30, can you believe?) as a romantically impulsive Howard Hughes. |
 | | A firebrand of chutzpah, derring-do and imagination -- fortified, of course, by millions of dollars -- he follows his whims as a movie mogul (of RKO Pictures), aviation pioneer and, increasingly, a paranoid obsessive struggling with many psychological demons. |
 | | "The Aviator," scripted by John Logan, follows all the rules of Hollywood: big stars, promiscuous use of computer-generated imagery, and more emphasis on advertising and publicity than story development. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A17386-2004Dec21?language=printer (532 words) |
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