People with BIG dreams

I went to the movies this weekend and saw "The Aviator", the story of Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. Of course the movie casts Mr Hughes in a very favourable light, but I cannot avoid thinking the thought that I basically like the guy! He was dreaming BIG dreams and having the means and guts to try to make them come true. And he dreamed about great things like advancing aviation for the good of the masses. He reminds me of another person with huge dreams: Sergei Korolev, the creator of Sputnik and builder of the world's first piloted spaceship. Such people do exist even today, but they seem to be less common!

Go see the movie! It reveals thing I had no idea about - like the fact that Katherine Hepburn was HH's girlfriend for quite a while! An odd couple.