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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.
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.
"The point of this is not to simply tell [Thompson's] life story and celebrate what a great man he was," he continued. "His art, his ideas and his contributions to the world are worthy enough of a ...
When Anita Thompson's husband, Hunter, died via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in 2005, Hugh Hefner stepped in to help her.
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/ ə ˈ k ɒ s t ə /; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement.He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), [3] and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson.
Still Life with Raspberry or the Bumper Book of Steadman (1969) "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" (1970) (written by Hunter S. Thompson) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) (written by Hunter S. Thompson) Two Donkeys and a Bridge (1972) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973) (written by Hunter S. Thompson) America (1974)