come on corporations, come on howard hughes, it might be good enough for you. ((george knapp)) officially, hughes never left his hotel room during his las vegas stint...though some people. including truck driver melvin dummar--would dispute that. four years after slipping into town, he slipped out just as quietly but not before setting in motion a chain of events that changed the town and the state forever. george knapp 8 news now./// ((brian loftus)) >> melvin dummarh after finding him in the desert in 1967, still lives here in nevada. ((kirsten joyce)) >> the i-team spoke to him not long ago. you can see that story on our website./// ((kirsten joyce)) >>> making a difference .. while shopping for the >> michelle mortensen finds presents that also give back to the community ... coming up in her holiday gift guide./// ((kirsten joyce)) valley has a plate on thanksgiving ... we're live at catholic charities .. as they get ready to serve thousands in our community. ((brian loftus)) >> plus... a forecast that looks good enough to eat.. your thanksgiving day weather

howard hughes, it might be good enough for you. officially, hughes never left his hotel room during his las vegas stint...though some people. including truck driver melvin dummar--would dispute that. four years after slipping into town, he slipped out just as quietly but not before setting in motion a chain of events that changed the town and the state forever. george knapp 8 news now. ((christianne klein)) >> melvin dummar, the man who finding him in the desert in 1967, still lives here in nevada. the i-team spoke to him not logn ago and you can see the story we wrote on our website. ((christianne klein)) >>> the holiday shopping season is already in full swing.. ((mauricio marin)) >> we have an inside look at how the black november sales affect our nation's economy.. that's next on 8 news now at 5, <<< (("you're watching the valley's news leader...with dave this is 8 news now at five.")) >>> ((christianne klein)) >>> thanksgiving day kicks the holiday shopping season into high gear. an estimated 137 million americans are expected

i was always amused by howard hughes. and never met him. >> mr.hes, i would like to thank you for the chance to become a star. >> you have never had a drink in your life? >> i don't drink. >> we seem to be his kind of personal assistants, so we have to get him his ice cream and enema at one point. >> you think i am nuts, right? get that person out of here! >> these people that had to deal with him and he was impossible to deal with, but they all liked him. it' not always an asset to be able to do whatever you want to do. >> maybe i am not the right girl for this. a movie actor should be sexy but in this town aren't those the rules? >> u are an exception. the rles don't apply to you. >> when it come to marla and frank think how would you say rules don't apply is a love story? >> within the trials and trib laying that his they go through under the eccentric billionaire howard hughes, they can relate other and they relate to a lot and go through a lot and they are draw to each other as well as this deep-rooted compassion. and love is what drives us a

in rules don't apply, he plays the famously secretive billionaire, howard hughes. >> have you heard from people that i am crazy. though the film centers on an aspiring actress from virginia, and her driver, both church-going, small towners. who struggle to keep their religious values intact in 1958 hollywood. she still believes thatnc have been intimate or gone all the way with a person that, in the eyes of god, you are committed to that person. for the rest of your life. >> i agree with sarah. that's why i have never didn't. that they why i am waiting. because i have to be sure. >> beatty himself was raised southern baptist in virginia. before coming to hollywood in the late 1950s. >> one of the characters in the movie says once you have been intimate, you are married. >> ta >> i don't want to pontificate on your show about this. because you are editing. i'm not. and so -- i want to be very clear about what i say. and i have learned in my long period of being famous, or well known. >> famous. >> i have learned that i -- that i should say it myself. >> especially when it comes to his new

. >> jimmy: did you ever -- did you -- you play howard hughes. did you ever meet howard hughes? >> i never met howard hughes. >> jimmy: he was kind of a a recluse. >> yeah. i like to say that i feel that i've met everyone who ever met howard hughes. you know, because i heard all these stories, and they would make me laugh, and -- >> jimmy: oh, they're crazy. they're insane. you almost don't believe them. and you go, "no, it's true." it is invented memory, but that's the truth about all fiction, i mean, all history, which is that it is fiction. >> jimmy: it is, right? like, who knows, yeah. you start off -- >> when i started this picture, i quoted three people. one was henry ford who said, "history is bunk." i also quoted winston churchill who said, "history will be very kind to me, because i intend to write it." [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's a good one. >> and i quoted napoleon who [ light laughter ] so, what i do, and i'm not knocking historians, because -- but you never know when you hear these stories about people, whether they're true or whether they're invented and ju

. >> seth: and this is a film about howard hughes and warren plays howard hughes and in scenes where he was directing and in them was he then directing as howard hughes? >> yeah, which was so strange. i have never seen in a scene with an actor who is also the director, so i thought, this is going to get really confusing. and when he's just director, he is either sitting behind the monitor or sometimes he'd sit right next to the camera. and be like sitting like this watching me and i'm like, "i love you but like can you get out of my eye line please?" >> seth: yeah. >> i can't really -- like alden is there and you're there and then when it would be warren and i in a scene though, he would talk as howard hughes and ask me to repeat things and be like, "i can't -- i'm sorry -- i can't hear you." what was that? he was like, "are you mad at me?" and i was like, "no." he's like, "are you mad at me? do you want to get madder? do you want to repeat that?" and he'd like get me really type of performance. >> seth: that is so -- it's so intimidating to think of being directed by warren beatty.

if they wanted to see a biopic of howard hughes. no this is a movie about two young very religious kids she comes from virginia shes a baptist and he comes from fresno hes a methodist and its about the what i would say the sometimes comical consequences and also sometimes sad puritanism. would you excuse me. what the is she doing here. you said you wanted the girl with the two ms. thats not her thats marlon mavery shes a baptist nun for christ sake. she was the only one in the payroll with two ms. did it ever occur to you that the one i wanted with two ms was not on the payroll? ah you meant marilyn monroe? this was such a special that time but you recreated it perfectly. the picture starts in 1958 thats when i came to hollywood. was beginning to shake and feminism had reached a boiling point in the very late fifties and early sixties and it all led to what we revolution. when you told me that the rules dont apply to me you know they dont apply to you either. i behaved like a cheap floozy. you did nothing wrong. and im not some disg

his name was howard hughes, a billionaire who arrived on thanksgiving in 1966, moved into the desert inn hotel, and started buying things. the arrival of hughes is c onsidered a turning point in the history of las vegas over the course of the next four years, highes spent clsoe to 300 million dollars here, buying up hotel casinos, raw land, mining claims, and politicians. tonight at schumacher will tell the story of what hughes had in mind when he came to town half a century ago. ((geoff schumacher/mob museum content director: he wanted to own a state. he basically wanted to take over nevada because, in california, he was not such a big fish anymore, there were all kkinds of peopel who were rich. there were all kinds of peopel who were powerful. hughes wanted to be in a place where he could be the most powerful man and he thought nevada could be that place. )) the mob museum has a howard hughes exhibit because ther billionaire's purchase of hotels here paved the way for the departure of the mafia figures who had been in charge on the strip.schumacher's presentation gins tight at 7 pm

but he plays howard hughes and everybody knows who howard hughes is so it seems easy. >> a good way to describe it. you play lavar, kind of assi assistant and driver who is a zb go-between. >> yeah. >> must have been a bizarre world to be around howard hughes at that time. >> it absolutely must have been. you c e you had to get him whatever he wanted no matter how strange. and that was my job. and i also remember was living in warren's guest house so i was sort of playing a butler when i got to the set and i would get home and still sort of feel the same way. >> people say that warren directed in character -- >> yes. >> -- as howard hughes. when he came home at night, you were his house guest, did he stay in character then? >> no, by then he was back to warren. and was into acting, he'd say -- and i'd say, i don't know if tim's being directed or the guy is talking to me. >> i'm looking over to casey affleck in the orange room. he's coming up next. you're actually in the movie he is talking about. >> i know i am. i'm in most every movie. you know? >> anything you want to say about casey

more upbeat story in some ways but not necessarily as howard hughes. i sit upbeat only in the sense that some of the habits that he had almost humorous in how obsessive and detailed they are. i'm going to read you one. howard hughes suffered from what we would now call excessive compulsive disorder, ocd. i talked to the ocd experts who coached leonardo dicaprio on how to exhibit ocd in the movie the aviator. you see some of those characteristics of ocd in marriage during a movie. but howard hughes up at a time when germs were very prevalent and fear with very big about things like typhoid and dysentery and polio. his mother was very concerned about germs. it may have been sort of carried down to howard hughes himself because by his 20s, he also developed a very, very severe fear of contamination of the germs to the point where he was then asking his aides to come in with three newspapers so he could pull out the middle one and avoid any contamination from the top or the bottom. they were to open the medicine cabinet in his bathroom with at least 15 kle

howard hughes let you do that? >> howard hughes let us do that, seat, was just improved. mother to daughter. i spent a lot of time at their house with their kids and see how they interacted and got to have my own very organic relationship with her. >> and you get to sing in the movie, too. how was that? >> really fun. at first really nervous, because we sang live. the thing is my character is a songwriter, not a singer. so if my voice cracked or got nervous bar hers would have. >> what does your dad think of your singing? >> i didn't tell him i was doing it until i sent him the trailer. i sent him the newest trailer just him sings and got back, ah, utterly fabulous. very proud and really, really excited. >> so much happening. a book. when's your book coming out? >> in march. march 7th. >> come back and see us. >> what do we do, hoda we set >> all: snot out of books! >> got have it. >> "rules don't apply" hits theaters next wednesday. >> wines day wednesday. from the first moment you met it was love at first touch and all you wanted to do was surround them in comfort and p

to see a biopic of howard hughes. no this is a movie about two young very religious kids she comes from virginia shes a baptist and he comes from about the what i would say the sometimes comical consequences and also sometimes sad consequences of american sexual puritanism. that often makes us the laughing stock of france and time period very well -- because he lived through it. period very well -- because he lived through it. "we romanticize the past sometimes. you were there. it seemed like a great timem to be in hollywood. well i do think it was different than it is now. but now is a good time too. the motion picture business has changed a lot...the windows are much more brief then they were say in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and the 80s. that's right. back then a scandal would stay later it's on to the next one. yeah you're bored by that scandal you're on to the next four... phase one of the lakefront gateway project is finally complete. the changes one phase is complete on a major project to open up traffic a