Salon.com > Hunter S. Thompson http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 13:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “The Rum Diary”: Inside Johnny Depp’s gonzo fantasy http://www.salon.com/2011/10/26/the_rum_diary_inside_johnny_depps_gonzo_fantasy/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/26/the_rum_diary_inside_johnny_depps_gonzo_fantasy/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10145105 Johnny Depp's quasi-filial bromance with Hunter S. Thompson has now extended well beyond the celebrated gonzo journalist's death, with consequences that are a lot like the relationship itself: Strange, endearing and a little bit embarrassing. Depp personally financed and supervised the firing of Thompson's earthly remains out of a cannon at the writer's 2005 funeral, an event captured in Alex Gibney's documentary "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" (narrated, of course, by Johnny Depp). Having played Thompson's most famous alter ego, Raoul Duke, in Terry Gilliam's psychotronic 1998 version of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" -- a flawed film, but very much worth a second look in its recent Criterion release -- Depp now returns to the Thompson well of booze and acid for a second dip.

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