Wayne Ewing
The Return to Las Vegas – Part 2
Our ten hour journey from Woody Creek to Vegas had been rough, but now, as our caravan pulled into the circular driveway of the Palms...
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Wayne Ewing
Nov 9, 20139 min
The Return to Las Vegas – Part 1
We were on the edge of the desert somewhere near Palisade when the drug began to lose its grip. I was following the 32 foot, white...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 24, 20111 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 10
In the final episode of The Rum Diary Back-Story Hunter makes a rare appearance reading the book’s Prologue – “San Juan, Winter of 1958.”...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 23, 20111 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 9
Hunter worked the telephone incessantly during the last ten years of his life, and his telcons with Johnny Depp keep The Rum Diary alive...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 21, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 8 “The Fax”
Hunter Thompson’s FAX to Holly Sorensen of January, 2001 is still infamous in Hollywood. Every writer and author’s frustration with the...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 19, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 7
Last Friday I found Holly Sorensen working in a bungalow at CBS Studio Center just over the hill from Hollywood. Although still...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 17, 20111 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 6
The Tiki Hut by the pool in Depp’s backyard seemed the perfect spot to fish for a Hollywood producer with money. Johnny and Hunter had...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 15, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 5
In December 1999, Hunter and I went to Hollywood to pitch The Rum Diary with Johnny Depp to producers and studios who might put up the...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 11, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 4
The call from Hunter woke me up at 1am. I had been expecting it, but had fallen asleep in my cabin on the Frying Pan River. We had...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 9, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode Three
“I want FOOD! Rum is not enough alone. I shall entitle my story ‘Rum is Not Enough.’ Or ‘ Not by Rum Alone.’ My stamps, envelopes,...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 4, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story: Episode Two
This Episode opens with Hunter and historian Doug Brinkley exploring the “War Room” in the basement of Owl Farm where Doug found the...
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Wayne Ewing
Sep 29, 20112 min
The Rum Diary Back-Story: Episode One
For forty years Hunter S. Thompson struggled to finish his first novel – The Rum Diary – and then he fought until he died to make it a...
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Wayne Ewing
May 15, 20109 min
The Premiere
The May, 1998 New York premiere of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was of course filled with both fear and loathing for Hunter. He feared...
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Wayne Ewing
Nov 11, 20099 min
Fear and Loathing in Hollywood
Six months had passed since Hunter’s trip to Hollywood in the spring of 1997 to replace Alec Cox as the director of Fear and Loathing in...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 14, 20097 min
The Chateau Marmont – Part 2
Hunter’s six days at the Chateau Marmont in March, 1997 developed into an odd routine. Mid-morning I would wake up in Marina del Rey on...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 6, 20096 min
The Chateau Marmont – Part 1
Hunter went to Hollywood many times and was first documented doing so in the 1978 BBC documentary Fear and Loathing on the Road to...
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