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Hunter Thompson

What Part of "It's Never Off the Record" Don't You Get?

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Time Magazine, Val Kilmer, P.J. O'Rourke, Joe Klein, Duncan Boothby, Pr, Off-the-Record, Meg Whitman, New Mexico, Hunter Thompson, Public Relations, Jerry Brown, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, Katherine Graham, George Allen, The Washington Post, Macaca, Velcro, Media News
Tom Alderman

The digital age and the internet has further limited what a public figure should and should not say. But that does not change the first commandment of all public dialogue: you are never off the record!

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Magic and Self-Loathing in Berkeley: Michael Lewis on Becoming a Writer

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Tom Wolfe, Liar's Poker, Wall Street, Jim Fallows, Hunter Thompson, The Big Short, Michael Lewis, Nick Leamann, Felix Salmon, Michael Kinsley, Star Lawrence, Salomon, Books News
Alicia Whitaker

Speaking over lunch in a Midtown bistro, Michael Lewis and I had a conversation about how he became a writer, who has influenced him, and how he conjures the motivation to write.

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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Shangri-Las, Crystals, Ellie Greenwich, Sandy Pearlman, Billboard, Black Sabbath, Woodrow Wilson, Blue Oyster Cult, Vietnam War, Music, McGill University, Pavlov's Dog, Rolling Stones, Library of Congress, Clash, Hunter Thompson, National Recording Preservation Board, The Byds, Technology, Entertainment News
Howie Klein

Ellie Greenwich beat Pat Benatar to the punch with the pixie slut haircut. Signaling that feminine power source, the union of opposites.

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Fear and Loathing in the Conservative Blogosphere

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Conservative Bloggers, John Hinderaker, Hunter Thompson, Reality-Based Community, Ron Suskind, Power Line Blog, Michelle Malkin, Media News
Dan Sweeney

How long until a major conservative blogger finally suffers a complete breakdown, disassociates from reality, and starts pretending that Bush is still president?

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Culture Zohn: Dear Democrats, Please Wake Up!

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Karl Rove, John McCain, Wind Power, Swift Boat, Nuclear Power, Hunter Thompson, Aspen Institute, Convention, Republicans, Democrats, The China Syndrome, Barack Obama, Boone Pickens, Nicolas Sarkozy, Anita Thompson, Politics News
Patricia Zohn

McCain was droll, offensive without being nasty and very relaxed. He was handy at spewing mixed-up rhetoric about his position and Obama's on the war, oil drilling, NATO and tax cuts -- It was seductive.

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Hunter Thompson Would Have Been for Obama

Darrell Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tom Wolfe, Gonzo Journalism, Barack Obama, Hunter Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, Hubert Humphrey, George Mcgovern, Movies, Entertainment News
Darrell Hartman

Documentarian Alex Gibney, who, after making a film about Thompson for the last two and a half years, says he feels pretty confident declaring Obama would have been Thompson's man.

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