taken from: 'the kleenex protocol'about the quoted person:Millionaire businessman, film producer, film director, and aviator, born in Houston, Texas, USA. hughes studied at the California Institute of Technology, inheriting his father's machine tool company in 1923. In 1926 he ventured into films, producing Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1941). He also founded his own aircraft company, designing, building, and flying aircraft, and broke several world air speed records (1935-1938). Throughout his life he shunned publicity, eventually becoming a recluse while still controlling his vast business interests from sealed-off hotel suites, and giving rise to endless rumour and speculation. In 1971 an 'authorized' biography was announced, but the authors were imprisoned for fraud, and the mystery surrounding him continued until his death.

Rumor had it he was a sickly loner, living life in a bathrobe and Kleenex box slippers. he was obsessed with kleenex boxes. Others felt he was simply using his shadowy image to move beyond the public spotlight (which had never been kind to him) and into a secluded realm of personal privacy and happiness. In 1977, the television mini-series The Amazing Howard Hughes attempted to address the conjecture, the sensationalism and the truth behind this eccentric entrepreneur. in 2004 the aviator came out, a movie about howard hughes, starring leonardo dicaprio and directed by martin scorsese.

In the book Howard Hughes, The Secret Life, Charles Higham details some of the idiosyncratic behavior exhibited by Hughes during his 18 years of reclusion:'He would spend hours...

making small, neat piles of Kleenex boxes, then taking the piles apart ... He had his food delivered in paper bags; the bags had remained untouched in a sealed cupboard for two years. The drivers had to wear white cotton hospital gloves when they carried the bags in. Hughes extracted the food - mostly Hershey bars and milk - with Kleenex wrapped around his hand... He was obsessed by the toilet. He urinated on the floor; then covered it with Kleenexes to sop up the fluid. ...

He had strict rules over the delivery of magazines...

Three copies of the same magazine were always presented to him. Hughes would reach out, his hands and arms swathed in paper like an Egyptian mummy's, and delicately, with infinite slowness, remove the middle magazine from its companions. He would repeat, over and over again, instructions for the other magazines to be burned.'the quote is taken from one of his protocols which showed his hypochondria and obsession with kleenex boxes.