Confronted by Geraldo Rivera on national TV, Thompson admits the account might have begun as a rumor, because for one thing, he initiated it. In one of his iconoclastic periods, he fabricated a story about presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, subsequently picked up by the overly eager mainstream press. Addressing the character of Richard Nixon, a man he loathed, Thompson wrote: “He speaks to the werewolf in us on nights when the moon comes too close.” We see Thompson as a boozer, an acid freak who “shocked the squares” with his “mocking rage” fueled by “despair.”Ī writer who says he found his style by transcribing passages from “The Great Gatsby,” he shot off prose in fits of exclamatory brilliance. Alex Gibney’s absorbing documentary attempts to corral the essence of a wild stallion, a man of many contradictions who went on to write searing articles about the 1972 election, and penned “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” later adapted into an award-winning film.
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