Hunter S. Thompson News

You can experience the classic adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's heralded book in high definition this coming February.

Have you seen "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"? And by see, I mean that it's not even important that you hear.

The 411 Movies Top 5 11.06.09: Week 189 - Top 5 Funniest True Story Movies Posted by Trevor Snyder on 11.06.2009 From Catch Me If You Can to Ed Wood , 411's Trevor Snyder, Jeremy Thomas, and Steve Gustafson offer their takes on the funniest movies ever made based on real life events.

Scott Laningham and I got together earlier this week and recorded this podcast to give a heads up to folks about all the good stuff happening at next week's Information On Demand event in Viva Las Vegas.

Hunter S. Thompson's widow says she may consider a campaign for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colo., a development that could provoke fear and loathing in Aspen, where real-estate developers have long dreaded a return of the late "gonzo" journalist's infamous 1970 "Freak Power" politics.

Gunning for glory ... Benicio Del Toro with Catalina Sandino Moreno in Che. Shelia Johnston September 18, 2009 - 3:23PM HE was a usual suspect in The Usual Suspects and looked right at home in the police line-up. He was a Bond villain - the youngest ever, at 21 - in Licence to Kill .

Bob Braudis has been sheriff of Aspen, Colorado, for more than two decades. A close personal friend of Hunter S Thompson, he has adopted many of the gonzo writer's beliefs in office.

There is a scene in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson, where Thompson is driving his 1955 Chevy in Denver while holding a typewriter on his lap and typing his next story.

I just found out that two new worth-mentioning films have been added to Hulu: Zack Snyder 's feature directorial debut, the 2004 remake of George Romero 's Dawn of the Dead , and Terry Gilliam 's adaptation of the Hunter S Thompson novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .

Untimely and unexpected, the deaths of these celebrities shocked and saddened the world.

The realities were already fixed; the illness was understood to be terminal, and the energies of The Movement were long since dissipated by the rush to self-preservation. - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Altamont's fixed realities are thankfully mentioned at the end of Taking Woodstock , when organizer Michael Lang, portrayed ...

Aug. 15 marks the 40-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Many college students look back on the days of Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon with nostalgia - nostalgia for a time when we didn't even exist.

My favorite story about Hunter S. Thompson takes place when Thompson was writing for Rolling Stone and spurring many would-be imitators to submit their own drug-addled stories to the magazine.

I usually read like a freshman fraternity pledge shot-gunning a beer. But when I read Matt Taibbi I enjoy his work like Dorothy J. Gaiter savors a vintage wine.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

America: the great nation that would love to throw itself a birthday party. Instead of baking a cake for Lady Liberty, how about looking at classic American movies that aren't as awful as INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE PATRIOT, but are patriotic in their own right? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson's masterpiece is the perfect choice ...

Hell's Angels . Those two words are able to conjure a myriad of emotions, no matter if you're eighteen or seventy-eight. Leather.

FILM: As part of SFMOMA's Robert Frank Retrospective, Program 3 will be a screening of three of Frank's short films.