Category: Hunter S Thompson

October 29, 2011

Obsessions: Tripping on Hunter S. Thompson

Filed under: Hunter S Thompson - 29 Oct 2011

Johnny Depp certainly means to do right by his pal Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary. He played Thompson in Terry Gilliam's rollicking but not especially watchable Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and narrated a documentary about him.

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Obsessions: Tripping on Hunter S. Thompson

Filed under: Hunter S Thompson - 29 Oct 2011

Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 | 5:49 p.m. – Depp does his utmost to sell us on the scuzzy romance of blackout alcoholism. I'm still not buying it.

Johnny Depp nails portrait of world-weary journalist in genial film tribute to Hunter S. …

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October 28, 2011

'Rum Diary' revels in Hunter S. Thompson

Filed under: Hunter S Thompson - 28 Oct 2011

The record shows that in 1970 we published Hunter S. Thompson's The Battle of Aspen; in 1971 he wrote about the stirrings of Mexican unrest in East Los Angeles, featuring a fiery lawyer named Oscar Zeta Acosta, who later that …

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