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	reviewjournal.com -- News - Melvin recalls Howard
		Melvin Dummar lies in the desert Thursday in the position and location he claims he found Howard Hughes when he stumbled across the billionaire in 1967.
		Dummar said Hughes was tall and thin, with a scruffy white beard and hair down to his shoulders.
		Dummar's lawsuit is based on new details gathered by former Las Vegas FBI Special Agent Gary Magnesen, who met Dummar in 2003 and has uncovered information that he thinks places Hughes in remote Central Nevada on the night in question.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2006/Jun-20-Tue-2006/news/8046899.html (1241 words)

	Houston's Clear Thinkers: Melvin and Howard redux
		Dummar claimed that the handwritten will was a reward for saving Hughes' life after Dummar found him lying alone one night on a desolate Nevada desert roadside about 150 miles north of Las Vegas.
		Dummar's new lawsuit alleges that Lummis, a Hughes cousin and the main family heir, and Gay, a former Hughes executive, conspired to withhold information from the court in the 1978 trial in order to discredit the validity of the Morman Will.
		Dummar's latest lawsuit is based largely on the testimony of a former Hughes pilot, who allegedly corroborates Dummar's allegation that Hughes had left Las Vegas to visit a brothel -- appropriately named the "Cottontail Ranch" -- near the spot where Dummar allegedly found Hughes in the Nevada desert.
	blog.kir.com /archives/003203.asp (334 words)

	Melvin and Howard
		Melvin told a story that he picked up a ragged old man nearly unconscious near the side of the road, drove him to Vegas, and loaned him a quarter.
		Melvin was working a factory job at the time, and lived in a trailer with his wife, played brilliantly by Mary Steenburgen, and his daughter.
		Melvin Dummar was one of life's losers, and this movie tells us that.
	www.scoopy.com /melvinandhoward.htm (1471 words)

	Mr. Dummar takes new shot at the Hughes estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dummar became a national joke when a Las Vegas jury ruled that the basis for his claim -- a handwritten will that surfaced mysteriously -- was fake.
		Dummar says this won't be a "cakewalk." The new complaint doesn't specifically ask the court to reconsider the validity of the will.
		Dummar's allies hope that new witnesses and indirect evidence will be enough to generate a settlement, if not a favorable verdict.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06165/698169-84.stm (1295 words)

	Reno News and Review July 20, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dummar, now 61, became famous overnight when a will purportedly written by the reclusive billionaire was mysteriously found on a desk in a Mormon church office in Salt Lake City a few days after Hughes died in April 1976.
		Dummar claimed to have picked up an old man and given him a ride one night and that the bequest was Hughes' way of thanking him.
		Dummar is suing two elderly Hughes executives for defrauding him out of his share of the estate.
	www.newsreview.com /reno/Content?oid=oid:70604 (344 words)

	Melvin and Howard DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		Melvin claims to have once given a ride to billionaire Howard Hughes and upon Hughes' death claimed to have a will naming him heir to the Hughes' fortune.
		When Melvin does find the "will," the movie is almost over, and very little screen time actually is spent dealing with how the discovery changes him.
		and as for melvin i am unsure what became of him as his family moved from willard after the movie was made and i myself have moved away as well, though my parents still live there and i visit from time to time.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B0000WN1NG (1000 words)

	Melvin Dummar
		Melvin Dummar and his wife owned and operated a small gas station in Willard, Utah at the time this information came to light.
		At the time, Dummar had no idea it was actually Howard Hughes, in spite of the fact that he claimed to be -- what would a millionaire be doing looking all grizzly and conked out in the desert?
		Melvin and Howard tells that story with the supposition that Dummar's claim was true.
	www.letsmakeadeal.com /melvin.htm (300 words)

	StandardNET/Standard-Examiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		OGDEN -- Melvin Dummar's former lawyers will be watching his new lawyers retrace their 29-year-old footsteps.
		Dummar's new legal team is crying fraud over the 1977 trial that found Dummar's so-called "Mormon will" from Hughes a fake, filing suit last week in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
		Handy said Melvin Dummar wouldn't have known the names of Hughes' ex-wives, the lone Hughes' relative named in the will, and other names and institutions Hughes was involved with that are named in the will.
	www.standard.net /standard.php/82758?printable=story (1017 words)

	kutv.com - Melvin Dummar Files Suit For Hughes Fortune
		Melvin Dummar filed suit in federal court charging fraud and perjury kept him from a share of Howard Hughes fortunesome $158-million dollars.
		In 1967 Brigham City resident Melvin Dummar said he picked up an old man lying on a dirt road in the Nevada desert and gave him a ride to Las Vegas.
		Then ten years later, Dummar says a will was delivered to him addressed to LDS church leaders, and he gave it to them.
	kutv.com /topstories/local_story_164193233.html (401 words)

	Melvin Dummar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melvin Earl Dummar (born August 28, 1944) was a Willard, Utah service station owner who claimed that one evening in December 1967 he had picked up Howard Hughes along a desolate road in the Nevada desert.
		Dummar reportedly found a solitary and lost Hughes lying on the side of a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 about 150 miles (240 km) north of Las Vegas, near Lida Junction.
		Dummar's complaint demanded the $156 million which he would have received from the estate, plus punitive damages and interest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melvin_Dummar (605 words)

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		Nearly 30 years after jurors declared that a will left by Howard Hughes that gave a fortune to a Utah gas station owner was fake, Melvin Dummar is back in court claiming he was cheated out of a share in the billionaire's estate.
		Dummar alleges that Lummis and Gay pressured Hughes employees to testify falsely at the 1977-78 Nevada trial that Hughes never left the Desert Inn in December 1967, so he could not have been rescued.
		Dummar's lawyers say there should be a new trial because evidence of alleged fraud didn't turn up until 2004.
	www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=64480 (831 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Dummar may have told truth after all
		Dummar drove the stranger to Las Vegas and did not believe it when the man claimed to be Howard Hughes.
		Dummar said he read the will and didn't know if it was real or a hoax.
		Dummar has heart trouble and survived a recent battle with cancer, but his genial personality survives.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600114069,00.html (1057 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: 'Melvin and Howard,' Part II
		Melvin Dummar had long since given up on getting a share of the late billionaire Howard Hughes' fortune.
		In a lawsuit filed Monday, Dummar claims to have new evidence and a compelling new witness: a pilot who says he flew the late Hughes to a brothel near where Dummar says he happened on to him.
		The lawsuit is based on new evidence that purportedly corroborates Dummar's claim that Hughes indeed was in the desert that late-December 1967 night.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/lv-other/2006/jun/14/566654799.html (1448 words)

	Passing Through: An Existential Journey Across America's Outback - A Stephens Press Book
		Melvin Dummar had grown up in the shadow of those same billboards, and, as a boy, had watched in wide-eyed wonder as the stretch limos roared past his father's humble mining claim in Fairfield.
		Directed by Jonathan Demme, Melvin and Howard features the real Melvin Dummar in his first ever dramatic role-a bit part as a soda jerk for which he receives a seven-dollar royalty whenever the film is shown on television.
		Melvin would be snatched from the clutches of his creditors and carried off to a penthouse suite high atop the Desert Inn-far, far removed from the harsh realities of the workaday world.
	www.passingthroughnv.com /html/excerpts.html (3368 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Melvin And Howard review
		The Hughes incident and its fallout shape the character of Melvin Dummar.
		Yes, there really was a loser named Melvin Dummar, and yes, he really did claim his right as one of the beneficiaries named in a will that might have been written by Howard Hughes.
		Melvin and Howard is a credible story and an incredibly well crafted film.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/melvinandhoward.htm (781 words)

	Melvin and Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melvin and Howard is a 1980 movie directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Bo Goldman, based upon the claims of Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar concerning a purported will written by Howard Hughes, leaving Dummar 1/16th of his $2 billion estate, which would have amounted to $156 million.
		Dummar claimed that Hughes bestowed the $156 million to him after Dummar picked him up as a lost hitchhiker late one evening in December 1968 and at Hughes's request, drove him to the Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas, but the subsequent legal proceedings found his claims to be false.
		Notable performers in the film are Jason Robards as Hughes, Paul Le Mat as Melvin Dummar and Mary Steenburgen who later won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Dummar's first wife, Lynda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melvin_and_Howard (221 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Melvin and Howard (1980) - Printable
		Melvin and Howard recounts the arguably true story of one Melvin Dummar, a simple, hard-working dreamer who picks up an injured old man in the Nevada desert late one night.
		The man claims to be Howard Hughes, but Dummar has no reason to believe him and goes on with his life as a family man and would-be songwriter with a good heart and absolutely no ability to manage money.
		Publicity and a court trial follow, but Dummar is content in his knowledge of the truth regardless of whether he ever gets the multi-million dollar inheritance specified in the intensely contested will.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=220 (910 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 2 brothers are behind Dummar
		They didn't mike up Dean and Gary Magnesen for the press conference Tuesday where it was announced that Melvin Dummar is suing a former Hughes Corp. official and a Hughes family member for fraud.
		When few would hire Dummar, Dean Magnesen did, and for many years Dummar became part of the "traveling circus" that is part and parcel of the liquidation world.
		It was in late 2001 when Dummar, after another round in a recurring bout with cancer, confided in Dean that he hoped to clear his name before he died.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640186766,00.html (524 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- News - JOHN L. SMITH: Maybe, at long last, a little respect will come Melvin Dummar's way
		Dummar, the man who got no respect, couldn't win the big one, and became a symbol for laughable little guys with impossible dreams, is once again fighting for a piece of the multibillion-dollar Howard Hughes estate.
		Dummar's long, winding, and dusty tale began on a night in December 1967 when he swore he found a man lying facedown near a dirt road not far from the Cottontail Ranch whorehouse in central Nevada.
		Dummar's lawyer, Stuart Stein, told a reporter he was in line to collect a share of any settlement.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2006/Jun-14-Wed-2006/news/7949896.html (722 words)

	Amazon.ca: Melvin And Howard: DVD: Jonathan Demme,Anthony Alda,Martine Beswicke,Gene Borkan,Elizabeth Cheshire,Danny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Melvin doesn't take easily to being rich, and in telling his story Melvin and Howard becomes a true American classic, guaranteed to stand the test of time and improve with age like John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath.
		While the movie is titled Melvin and Howard, it's mostly about Melvin, and deals with his many ups and downs (mostly downs) in a particular period of his life.
		Dummar claimed his only prior contact with Hughes was giving him a ride once late at night after the billionaire had crashed his motorcycle while riding in the desert.
	www.amazon.ca /Melvin-Howard-Jonathan-Demme/dp/B0000WN1NG (2063 words)

	melvinandhoward
		Dummar claimed that Hughes bestowed the $156 million to him after he picked Hughes up as a lost bum in the Nevada desert late one evening in December 1968 and at Hughes's request, drove him to the Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas and gave him some spare change.
		It starts out with happy-go-lucky factory worker Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) picking up a hobo lying besides the road on the Nevada desert and relating with the grouchy elderly bugger (Jason Robards) by singing the song he composed "Santa's Souped-Up Sleigh'' and shooting the breeze with his mysterious passenger.
		The couple move to rural Utah where Melvin struggles to support the family by running a run-down gas-station Bonnie acquired, until one day in 1976 some unidentified stranger drops off the Mormon will in his gas-station.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/melvinandhoward.htm (364 words)

	Melvin and Howard review (1980) Paul Le Mat - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		Melvin and Howard starts off with poor everyman Melvin Dummar driving through the highway near the Nevada desert one evening, only to come across what appears to be a transient who is lying off the road, near dead from the cold evening air.
		Melvin assists the man into his truck, driving him to Vegas to get some aid, and long the way, getting to know him a bit.
		Melvin and Howard is as strange and eccentric as Dummar himself, feeling like an outlandish odyssey of one man through some rather bizarre set of circumstances.
	www.qwipster.net /melvinhoward.htm (568 words)

	Melvin and Howard - DVD Movie Central
		Melvin Dummar was just an ordinary person like you or me. He struggled with bills and debts, dead end jobs, relationship troubles, and he dreamed of one day having that wonderful ship come in.
		Melvin and Howard, pays attention to it only a few minutes at the beginning and at the end of the film.
		Melvin is called a loser in the film…I don’t call him that.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/melvin_and_howard.htm (847 words)

	TIME.com: Desert Dream -- Oct. 20, 1980 -- Page 1
		But anyone looking for the poetic truth about Dummar, and most especially about the sweetly dreaming life of the American underclass that produces characters like him, is advised to see this movie, which is just about as good as American films get: sly and funny and, in the end, terribly touching.
		Indeed, when Lynda and Melvin get back together, it is her terpsichorean gift that briefly rescues him from having to succeed in his ingenuous but feckless quest for the "Milkman of the Month" prize at the dairy where he takes a job.
		But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this he parks uselessly in their driveway, from which unlikely spot he radios the Coast Guard for marine weather reports.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,951552,00.html (723 words)

	Judge to rule on Hughes estate claims - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dummar explained to reporters who descended on his gas station in Willard, Utah, that Hughes must have acted to repay him for rescuing a beaten and bleeding Hughes from a roadside ditch in the Nevada desert in December 1967.
		Dummar was in court Thursday as lawyers for Lummis and Gay denied wrongdoing and argued that Dummar had sued decades too late.
		Melvin Dummar, leaving court in Salt Lake City on Thursday, says he's owed $500 million.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-11-05-drummar_x.htm (863 words)

	Death and Taxes - The Blog: Melvin Dummar Returns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Dummar Is Back, Taking Another Shot At the Hughes Estate." The article -- which can be found here (subscribers only) -- states that Mr.
		Dummar's allegations are based on comments made by Robert Deiro in Mr.
		Dummar allegedly rescued him (I refer to this rescue, which supposedly took place in 1967, as the "'67 Incident").
	www.deathandtaxesblog.com /2006/06/melvin_dummar_r.html (1075 words)

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