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Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision - Hunter S. Thompson

March 1, 2007

A fascinating, 30 year old BBC documentary on the Good Doctor and Ralph Steadman, five years after Nixon’s resignation, and on a road trip to Hollywood (to work on what would become “Where the Buffalo Roam“).

Includes an interesting scene of John Dean chatting with Hunter about his Watergate testimony (at about 32 minutes), the birth of the “Re-Elect Nixon Campaign” (with a Bill Murray cameo), and a remarkably eerie scene with Hunter and Ralph planning Hunter’s final monument and his ashes being shot into the air, long before the actual fact.

(via Rimone)

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  1. no imagerimone (Check me out!) on March 2nd, 2007 8:57 pm

    thanks, Chuck. :-)

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