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The New York Daily News is reporting some unhappiness between Anita Thompson and Jann Wenner over the upcoming Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, An Oral Biography.

The funny thing with biographies is that people often say different things and it's understandable - memories get fuzzy or reconfabulated, people want to sound more important or what not. Some people completely remember things wrong too - ask four different people what happened at one event and you'll get four different stories. And there's always people with the "best" dirt and rumours too. I for one, would like to know what HST would think of all this post-mortem attention.

It would be quite interesting to sit down and compare the recollections in this new Gonzo article/book by the same people that appeared in E. Jean Carroll's Hunter, which was published about 15 years ago. If the article is any indication, it's probably in a similar format, but without the alternating ficticious chapters. Heh, I thought those were a hoot when I was 15 or 16 and still do :-)

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No doubt it's about Rolling Stone cancelling his (HST's) insurance after sending him overseas during Vietnam. I have a certain amount of respect for Wenner because he believed in Thompson, but Thompson was a golden goose for him, so that makes me a little less than respectful of Wenner, too. It's simple Public Relations. Rolling Stone doesn't want to admit what we all know to be true. Gonzo Journalism is a tough format to try to find truth in at times, but I don't think that Mr. Thompson would have lied/embellished about something as potentially dire as that. For God's sakes, he had a wife and Son to think about. Shame on Rolling Stone, but if they aren't going to own up to it, that's no sweat off of my back, I know what I believe. CB of McMinnville, TN

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Hey there, all anonymous questions are screened. Only I can read them until I release them, so it's only necessary to reply once.

Anyway, in answer to your question, I'm not aware of any paternity suits.

you wouldnt happen to know where I could find some desktop gonzo art for free would you? seems like a lot of steadman prints have been removed mysteriously from random sites.....yeah so hit me up
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Hey there, thanks for the reminder! I had a bunch on the website. I found the files to some of them so far - there are more, for sure.

http://www.gonzo.org/fun/wallpaper/

Were all allowed some BS if its good BS, and as for what would Hunter think,Im sure he would be thrilled that any attention was paid at all.

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"Unhappiness" between Wenner and Mrs. Thompson

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