BROWSE ARCHIVES Home The Big Story News Voices Music Movies Arts Dining Events Classifieds Promotions Store digg technorati reddit Film: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Alex Gibney's new documentary follows rise and fall of Hunter S. Thompson Magnolia Pictures Man on a mission: '70s-era Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in Gonzo After winning this year's Best Documentary Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side and being nominated for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Alex Gibney takes a break from investigating today's governmental and corporate corruption to revisit the wilder edges of 1960s/1970s-era countercultural idealism. His subject is wildman journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson, who committed suicide in 2005 at age 67, created "gonzo" journalism with his 1972 magnum opus Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a...
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