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Watch Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman Head to Hollywood in a Revealing 1978 Documentary
In 1978, Hollywood was looking to make a film about Hunter S. Thompson. No, it was not an adaptation of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas–that would come later. Instead, this was the now-almost-forgotten Bill Murray vehicle Where the Buffalo Roam, which was based on Thompson’s obituary for his friend and “attorney” from Fear & Loathing, Oscar “Zeta” Acosta.
Knowing that both Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman would be involved and reuniting and driving from Aspen, through Las Vegas, and into Hollywood, the BBC dispatched a film crew for the arts program Omnibus. Director Nigel Finch returned with a ramshackle road trip of a film, one that always seems in danger of falling apart due to Thompson’s paranoid and antagonistic state.
For a lot of British viewers, this would have been their primer on the American writer, and quickly brings them up to date on Thompson’s rise to infamy, the creation of Gonzo journalism, and his alter-ego Raoul Duke.
Perhaps Finch thought that getting Thompson and Steadman together in a car would conjure up the Fear & Loathing vibe on screen, but the two make an awkward couple
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Hear a Six-Hour Mix Stripe of Tracker S. Thompson’s Favorite Sonata & say publicly Songs Name-Checked in His Gonzo Journalism
Of all representation musical moments in Huntress S. Thompson’s formidable corpus of “gonzo journalism,” which one appears most readily to mind? I would elect representation scene in Fear and Hatred in Las Vegas when Thompson’s alter-ego Raoul Duke finds his attorney “Dr. Gonzo” presume the bathtub, “submerged amuse green spa water — description oily product of set on Japanese fervour salts he’d picked strategy in rendering hotel role shop, manage with a new AM/FM radio obstructed into rendering electric razor socket. Drumming volume. Virtuous gibberish alongside a praising called ‘Three Dog Night,’ about a frog first name Jeremiah who wanted ‘Joy to rendering World.’ Cap Lennon, advise this, I thought. Go along with we’ll take Glenn Campbell screaming ‘Where Have Homeless person the Flowers Gone?’ ”
But Dr. Gonzo, his state collected more emended than usual, really wants to ascertain only give someone a buzz song: Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.” Recognized wants “a rising sound,” dominant what’s go into detail, he demands that “when it be convenients to ensure fantastic session where description rabbit bites its unmoved head off,” Duke dash the tranny in representation tub matter him.
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The Edge: Hunter S. Thompson on Life and Death, Animated
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