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Tripping: 10 Celebrities That Have Done LSD

Posted 04.23.2012

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Sure, it's not that shocking that a few of these famous writers and actors dropped acid back in the day. But we were surprised to find out how some at...

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WATCH: Top 10 Pot Smoking Movie Scenes

Posted 04.19.2012

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The unnamed, endlessly quotable cannabis cinema genre is full of cult favorites like "Half Baked," "Up In Smoke" and the early "Reefer Madness." C...

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WATCH: Mind-bending Advertisement For Online Bookseller

Posted 03.12.2012

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Animation studio Buck is known for mind-bending creative work for clients including Google, Honda and the Sundance Festival - so when they turned thei...

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What If Hunter S. Thompson Had Twitter?

Michael J. Hunt | Posted 03.04.2012

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Every Presidential election year since 1824 has produced a biography of a candidate who has set his or her sights on the White House. The 2011 election is no different. But a combination of fewer print journalists on the trail, a heavy reliance up to the minute information provided via social media, particularly Twitter, and an overall sense of disillusionment with government and politicians could perhaps signal an end to this tradition.

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Director Bruce Robinson Uncorks The Rum Diary

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 01.05.2012

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The Rum Diary is veteran English writer-director Bruce Robinson's wild and wonderful first new feature in twenty years (!), as well as his explosive adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's very early, long-unpublished novel.

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Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, and Me: A Healthy Dose of Disrespect

Regina Weinreich | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Aaron Eckhardt, Hunter S. Thompson, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, William S. Burroughs, Johnny Depp, Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary, Culture News

For me, the best part of this meandering cartoon movie is a sight gag with Depp's Paul Kemp riding atop his sidekick photographer Bob Sala (Michael Rispoli) in an open vehicle, up and down, up and down over cracked cobblestones on bumpy streets.

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Movie Review: The Rum Diary

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.28.2011

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The Rum Diary is like a lengthy drinking binge of a movie: It's fun for a while, seems to offer more meaning than it actually does -- and leaves you wishing it hadn't ended so badly.

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Drinking To Excess

Posted 12.27.2011

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While Johnny Depp may have been remembering his friend this past week, his performance in the buzzed-about "The Rum Diary" is perhaps the most fitting...

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Johnny Depp Talks Hunter S. Thompson At 'Rum Diary' Event

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 12.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- In a fedora and sunglasses, Johnny Depp, one of Hunter S. Thompson's closest friends and star of "The Rum Diary," the new film adapted fro...

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15 Most Hilarious Author Quotes

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: George Carlin, Bernie Mac, Hunter S. Thompson, Humor Books, Slidepollajax, Authors-Twitter, Fran Lebowitz, Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Books News

While editing my new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion, I made a discovery: "If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn."

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Johnny Depp's Touching Tribute To A Lost Friend

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 12.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp vividly recalls the first time he met Hunter S. Thompson, sparks flying as the author parted a bar crowd with a cattle...

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'Rolling Stone' Founder On The Genius Of Hunter S Thompson

Jann Wenner | Posted 12.24.2011

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I've always thought that Hunter S Thompson had, in a sense, written his own autobiography in the pages of Rolling Stone.

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PHOTOS: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard Get Flirty

Posted 12.12.2011

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In 1998, Johnny Depp found a manuscript amongst a pile of old artifacts he was searching through while visiting the home of his good friend Hunter S. ...

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Johnny Depp's 'Crazed Hallucination'

Posted 10.26.2011

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"Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination," Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, "but it's all true... I think....

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PHOTO: Johnny Depp's Boozy Romp

Posted 10.16.2011

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One of Johnny Depp's most beloved (if by a cult audience) roles came in the adaptation of his friend Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing In Las Ve...

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Hunter S. Thompson's INCREDIBLE Response To A Fan

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 10.16.2011

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A letter like this rarely comes around. We can't actually prove that Hunter S. Thompson wrote this, but if you're familiar with his work there's a ...

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Authors In Bathing Suits: Who Knew They Were This Hot?

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.27.2011

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We don’t know about you, but now that it’s officially summertime, we want to spend as much time in our bathing suits as humanly possible, and so, ...

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HuffPost Readers' Picks: Best First Sentences In Books

Posted 07.26.2011

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortun...

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Betting on a 2011 Kentucky Derby Winner

Don McNay | Posted 07.05.2011

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When making your Derby bet, forget all the high powered systems and strategies and give it your best guess.

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Writing Under The Influence: Best Drug Induced Writing In Books (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've all heard the cliche "Write what you know." Well, the following writers were addicted to drugs and, boy, did they write about it. Writing und...

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What Kind Of Journalist Is This?

The Wrap | Tim Kenneally & Daniel Frankel | Posted 05.25.2011

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James O'Keefe, the man who slew ACORN and on Wednesday toppled the CEO of NPR, is some new kind of journalist - Johnny Knoxville meets Glenn Beck in M...

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What If "A Moveable Feast" Had Been Titled "A Moveable Snack?"

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Twitter hashtag, #lessambitiousbooks, is making another trending appearance this week. These are our current favorites. Got a better one? Let u...

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Congress Circa 112

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The business of America is business." -- Calvin Coolidge The 30th president of the United States was ...

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PHOTOS: 10 Best Travel Quotes Of All Time

Black Tomato | Posted 09.19.2011

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As the excitement for the upcoming release of the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "The Rum Diary" builds, here at Black Tomato we have been in...

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Speaking With New Jersey Indie Sensations Titus Andronicus

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Jersey has given passionate artists to the music world, and Titus Andronicus is one of those next great bands. I spoke with singer Patrick Stickles about the band's New Jersey and recording.

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