for those who are wondering what Doc Thompson's up to...

[No2W2004]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For most documentary filmmakers, being shot at by their subject might put a damper on the project. But when that subject is the notorious author Hunter S. Thompson, it's less a deal-breaker than a rite of passage.

"I had to take it as a hug from Hunter," director Wayne Ewing, a friend and colleague of Thompson's for two decades, recalled in a recent interview

Ewing's cinema verite tribute to the gonzo master premiered last year at the CineVegas Film Festival in Sin City, with Thompson in attendance. It continues to travel the fest circuit, and a supplement-packed DVD went on sale earlier this year, available exclusively via the Web. http://www.breakfastwithhunter.com

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/film_thompson_dc

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1. HST

On our side!

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2. Hunter Thompson exerpt

Big Darkness Soon Come...
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The Bush family reeks of fraud and bad karma. But even worse than our wretched, gibbling president are the cowardly whores in Hollywood who are currently smearing film stars and music people like Johnny Depp by calling them unpatriotic Americans who righteously question the wisdom of invading a whole nation of Islam -- 1.8 billion worshipers -- which is a dangerously stupid idea. Disagreeing with Donald Rumsfeld about bombing anybody who gets in our way is not a crime in this country. It is a wise and honorable idea that George Washington and Benjamin Franklin risked their lives for. These thieves in the White House are so crazy with greed and power, and they are causing so much drastic damage to the world we live in, that they are the ones who should be put on trial for treason.
---Hunter S. Thompson---

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/