Hughes was deeply weird in other ways too. He once proposed to the actress faith de merg by saying, i love you, faith. You're the child i should have had. Another time he puts his head in the lap of the mother of the actress he's dating and says, helen, has you? I don't have anybody. I'm an orphan. And then there's this story from the actress janet lee. She talked about it later with a journalist, skipped low, and, you know, all of a sudden, ii go on a date with e, with a, with a gentleman, a, and we end up on his planed inin
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