A preview of the film "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson"

with Alex Gibney, Graydon Carter and Jann S. Wenner
in Movies, TV & Theater, Current Affairs
on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 * * * * *

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A preview of the film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson with producer Graydon Carter, director Alex Gibney and co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone Jann Wenner.

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    1. Phineas  07/08/2008 01:52 PM Report

      Too long, didn't read.

    2. Phineas  07/08/2008 01:52 PM Report

      Too long, didn't read.

    3. RE Mant  07/03/2008 12:15 PM Report

      Couldn't care less about either Hunter or Rolling Stone but this discussion seemed to me to be both obnoxious and hypocritical.

    4. TTigerX2  07/03/2008 12:15 PM Report

      Today, Hunter would have ridiculed the Democrats.The Republicans don't offer much to ridicule because they are so obviously posing as red-neck swine. Where's the fun in that? Suicide, damn unlikely. Not very original.

    5. Wild girl  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      Mr Charlie Rose:

      It's first watch your shows online. So it's first time see you as well.You are great.Please let me know if next time you will interview his holiness or Richard Gere.I have some questions for them.

      A tibetan wildgirl

      Thanks

    6. response to admin  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      This is a test, a recycle with quotes: Being unhip and unfair simultaneously and not aware of Mr. Thompson left me with the question: what are all of these guys gonna be when they grow up? Including Chuck. Giddy, childish fawning over an admitted adult delinquent. I didn't get it. So I bought the book. Maybe I'll turn into a sychophant of nonsense as well when I become sophisticated - "sophisticated."

    7. John Randolph  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      This looks like a great film. However I did notice one error in the clip they showed. The chyron under Jimmy Carter said, "U.S. President 1976-1980". Of coursed Carter served 1977-1981. The campaign and election were in 1976 but he wasn't inaugurated until 1977.

    8. Rick Crocker  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      @responsetoadmin

      What do you mean by "growing up"?

      Buying into the culture brainwashing that you are what you own or produce ???

    9. Dean Bracewell  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      We are to celebrate and admire Thompson's criminal habits and his decision to kill himself when the fun was over?!

    10. urthpigg  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      Hunter S. Thompson was a true American patriot who cared about the future of our country. His writing contained hyperbole and I suspect that he may have mixed some fiction with fact, but sometimes a little embellishment helps to get one's point across. He connected with his readers' frustrations with living in a country that is becoming less free as we allow it to be run by war-profiteering global corporations. We need more people to speak truth to power as he did. Some will remember him as a crazy outlaw on drugs but some of us know that he was much greater than that.

    11. a  06/29/2008 07:10 PM Report

      These quotes seem apropos.

      “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”

      “Freedom is something that dies unless it's used”

      “The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

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      “Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.”

      Buy the ticket, take the ride.

    12. Uncle Ron  06/25/2008 11:17 PM Report

      I don't know much about Mr. Thompson and he was probably a nice guy who was troubled in a way maybe he didn't even understand. It is too bad he took his own life. His wife has written she was generally the "adult" in their

      relationship.

      As for the guests, they are the usual superior, self appointed know it all liberals. So self enlightened in their views about the state of the world. Self delusion is so comforting.

    13. MotherLodeBeth  06/25/2008 08:35 PM Report

      As someone who liked and semi knew HST, I wish shows would try and have some of his every day men/women friends on. Have found that city folks never fully understand wild mountain folks with working grey matter, guns, and whiskey. They may like the occasional experience but they never fully get the walk the talk which is actually a lifestyle. Also wish the show on Monday might would have done a better job of remembering George Carlin. But Charlie doesn't seem to like those of us who live on the edge.

    14. admin  06/25/2008 12:00 PM Report

      quotes are "fixed". (and by "fixed" i mean literally).

    15. ingenuous  06/25/2008 02:21 AM Report

      sophisticated.

    16. ingenuous  06/25/2008 01:18 AM Report

      Being unhip and unfair simultaneously and not aware of Mr. Thompson left me with the question: what are all of these guys gonna be when they grow up? Including Chuck. Giddy, childish fawning over an admitted adult delinquent. I didn't get it. So I bought the book. Maybe I'll turn into a sychophant of nonsense as well when I become

    17. less_cunning  06/23/2008 07:43 PM Report

      can't wait...