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“Have you noticed how no one comes to the door unannounced since I shot Deborah?” Hunter asked with an odd sense of pride.

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About a month had passed since the shooting incident at Owl Farm which you may remember since it was covered by over 800 news outlets worldwide. GONZO WRITER SHOOTS SECRETARY was a popular headline and essentially true, but the local press was particularly misleading with their banner HUNTER THOMPSON SHOOTS WOODY CREEK WOMAN.  You’d think Hunter had done a drive-by shooting on the ....Woody.. ..Creek.... tavern, leaving some biker bleeding through her latex.

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In fact, the real story was far stranger, and as the only one to witness it other than the victim and the shooter who can no longer be held accountable, I’ll tell you the truth.

For the rest of the story visit the Gonzo Room at

http://HunterThompsonFilms.com

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I had forgotten that HST's birthday was last Saturday. Perhaps because Hunter never wanted his birthday acknowledged and always insisted that like all race horses his birthday was Jan. 1. But when he turned 50, I figured we had to do something to celebrate and lured him down to the Woody Creek Tavern where about ten of us, including Sheriff Bob, lurked at a big corner table under the buffalo head. When Hunter walked in we all screamed "Happy Birthday" and he instantly said "f**k you," spun on his heels, walked right out and got in his car. Sheriff Bob tried to coax him back to no avail, and Hunter held the incident against me for quite awhile. Yet in the last few years Hunter truly wanted us to celebrate July 18 and so we did.  http://HunterThompsonFilms.com

I apologize for the downtime we got hit by some hackers. But have no fear the Gonzo Room is back on line!

Wayne Ewing's new film

"The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press"

Now Available at www.LoujonPress.com

After premiering at the Starz Denver Film Festival to a SOLD OUT audience last weekend, The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon will premiere in New Orleans on December 6th under the auspices of New Orleans Film Society. Since you have acquired one of my films in the past about Hunter Thompson, I think you will enjoy this one about the Bohemian culture which influenced the sixties.

In the documentary The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press, Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb, now well into her nineties, tells the story of how she and her husband Jon Webb published the avant-garde literary magazine The Outsider from a small apartment in the French Quarter in the early 1960's. By day Gypsy Lou sold paintings on a street corner, and by night she set the type that introduced the world to the beat poet Charles Bukowski whose work Jon Webb also chose for their first two Loujon Press books– It Catches My Heart In It's Hands and Crucifix in a Deathhand. The books are now rare collectibles, along with two others by Henry Miller, also hand-crafted and published by the Webbs.

Gypsy Lou and Jon Webb's story is about their love for each other and their dream of publishing great literature. Such eccentricity emerged from the unique culture of the 1950's French Quarter where Tennessee Williams held court at the Bourbon House and Charles Bukowski came to drink with strangers while the Webbs labored in their apartment on Royal Street.

The film's soundtrack features the legendary New Orleans jazz man Punch Miller who was one of the leaders of a musical revival in the 1960's with his trumpet at Preservation Hall. Punch also recorded Gypsy Lou Webb's song "Long Distance Blues" which is featured in the film.

"Fans of the iconic Hunter S. Thompson should check out hunterthompsonfilms.com put together by indie filmmaker Wayne Ewing. Built to serve as an online outlet for the three documentaries he made about late journalist, it has become of a defacto community site for his hardcore fans. Look for streaming videos from this year's Hunter S symposium at the Aspen Institute and a message board called the Gonzo Room if you want to know the answer to such burning questions as 'How does Dick Cheney prefer his baby flesh prepared?'"

After a few bumps in the road and late nights under the dim bulb of a computer monitor the Gonzo Room is back up and ready for your participation. Please have a visit at:

http://www.hunterthompsonfilms.com/gonzo_board/

For those of you unfamiliar, the Gonzo Room has grown into the preferred spot on the internet for fans of Hunter Thompson to discuss his work, his legacy, and the many political issues which would have excited the Good Doctor into the kind of action he is known and remembered for.

http://www.hunterthompsonfilms.com/gonzo_board/

While you are at HunterThompsonFilms.com please check out the new Video section with 19 clips from the Hunter Thompson Symposium hosted in Aspen by Juan Thompson, moderated by Douglas Brinkley and with panelists including Carl Bernstein and many others. This is some exciting footage that we know you will love. And what's even more exciting this video marks the first in many, exclusive and rare video that will only be available at HunterThompsonFilms.com

As always, thanks for all of your support and enthusiasm, the Good Doctor may have left the building, but your enthusiasm and work helps to keep his spirit as vibrant as ever.

Juan Thompson and the Aspen Institute hosted a symposium on July 21, 2007 on the work of the late writer Hunter S. Thompson who created his own genre of writing with Gonzo Journalism and changed American political reporting forever with his book Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

Thirty-five years later journalists Carl Bernstein, Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, Loren Jenkins of NPR, John Nichols of The Nation and others came together in a symposium moderated by Professor Douglas Brinkley to discuss the effect of Hunter's work on political reporting and American politics.

The hour and half event is exclusively available at www.HunterThompsonFilms.com in nineteen clips of free, streaming video produced by Wayne Ewing.

DVD Outsider just gave 'Breakfast with Hunter' a great review.

Go here to read it: http://www.hunterthompsonfilms.com/reviews.php#dvdoutsider

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