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Thompson was born into a middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons of Virginia Davison Ray (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), who worked as head librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library and Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran. [6]
Friends and family (including Tom Wolfe and Ralph Steadman) provide interviews to help describe the mythos of Hunter and his life. The film premiered on January 20 in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ; [ 1 ] it was released in US theaters on July 4, 2008, and released on DVD on November 18, 2008.
Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson. AMMO Books, 2006, ISBN 0-9786076-0-0 (Perfect; Paper over boards) Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson. Penguin Books, 2005, Ltd ISBN 0-14-102243-4 (Trade Cloth) Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 2011, ISBN 9781439165959 (Trade Cloth)
Don Johnson and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed a surprising friendship for nearly three decades until Thompson's death by suicide in 2005. "I loved him," the actor tells PEOPLE of the ...
Breakfast with Hunter is a 2003 documentary film about the everyday life of gonzo-journalist Hunter S. Thompson by Wayne Ewing. [2]The film includes a variety of well-known figures involved with Thompson throughout his life, including P. J. O'Rourke, Ralph Steadman, Roxanne Pulitzer, Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam and Benicio del Toro.
Amidst a backdrop of Nixon-era America, marked by riots, protests, and the war in Vietnam, young journalist Hunter S. Thompson visits the 1968 Democratic National Convention and experiences firsthand the brutality of the Chicago Police Department against protestors, "radicalizing" his political outlook against authoritative uses of force.
(Also sprinkled throughout Ebert's performance: homages to Bill Murray's Hunter from the 1980 film "Where the Buffalo Roam" and Johnny Depp's Hunter in the 1998 film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.")
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC Omnibus in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The film pairs Thompson with illustrator Ralph Steadman, as they travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas. [1]