Beatty takes a dig at Hollywood and Howard Hughes with a wink

New York

IT may be hyperbolic to describe Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes movie Rules Don't Apply as a screwball Citizen Kane. But that's what it feels like.

From another perspective, this serio-comic portrait of Hughes - the aeronautics mogul, movie producer and marathon womaniser - might also be a satirical cartoon that emphasises his similarities to Donald Trump. Why else would Beatty name a fictional aspiring singer and actress who comes into Hughes' orbit Marla Mabrey?