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Johnny Depp Arranges Shooting of HUnter S. Thompson's Ashes
SF Chronicle/AP ^ | 5/27/05 | AP

Posted on 05/27/2005 10:31:52 AM PDT by TFFKAMM

Organizers of a memorial for Hunter S. Thompson plan to erect a 150-foot structure — courtesy of actor Johnny Depp — to shoot the gonzo journalist's ashes onto his ranch near here.

Friends and acquaintances gathered Thursday to discuss the Aug. 20 invitation-only service, which will be six months after Thompson shot himself in his Woody Creek home.

Jon Equis, the event producer working with Thompson's family, said the tower will be 12 feet wide at the base and 8 feet wide at the top, where a cannon will be placed.

Depp, who portrayed the author in the movie version of Thompson's book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" will pay for the tower, designed to resemble Thompson's "gonzo fist" emblem.

As Thompson requested, his ashes will be shot out of the cannon onto his property.

Equis said the tower will be constructed far from Woody Creek Road and covered with a black drape before the service to discourage tourists. A public event is expected to be planned later to commemorate the writer's life.

The August event will consist of "spoken word and live entertainment," Equis said. The cannon will be fired around sunset.

The event organizers must get the plans reviewed by the Pitkin County Community Development Department, but Thompson's widow, Anita Thompson, was supportive. She said the event will be a celebration.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; funeral; gonzo; hst; huntersthompson; johnnydepp
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To: TFFKAMM

I don't understand this.


41 posted on 05/27/2005 11:40:21 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Terri Schindler was murdered - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!)
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To: Ladysmith
I'm a woman and even *I* know what Erasmus is saying!

Ditto... but I still have no idea why her pic(ture) is here.

42 posted on 05/27/2005 11:45:14 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (I'm rootin' for ya Bolton, but please lose the 'stache!)
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To: Mad Dawgg
ummm... maybe to your question...
43 posted on 05/27/2005 11:45:53 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (I'm rootin' for ya Bolton, but please lose the 'stache!)
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To: TFFKAMM

Thompson dead is almost as boring as Thompson alive.


44 posted on 05/27/2005 11:55:37 AM PDT by aculeus (Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
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To: Fudd Fan
Check out post #4. The FR rules for posting pictures are much like the rules for Calvinball. ;o)
45 posted on 05/27/2005 11:58:08 AM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
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To: dangus
Since you're not providing the ladies with it...



vs.



Spike is on the right, BTW.
46 posted on 05/27/2005 11:58:38 AM PDT by Starter (Missing the point since 2004!)
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To: Ladysmith; Erasmus; Fudd Fan

>>Yeegads, I'm a woman and even *I* know what Erasmus is saying!<<

Bangs head on desk. Riiiiight.

>> Ditto... but I still have no idea why her pic(ture) is here. <<

Fudd, all I can say is that I was obeying the rules as told to me in post 4. I don't understand them, but certainly did not want to argue.


47 posted on 05/27/2005 11:58:59 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Starter

I just figured I shouldn't have to do ALL the work. I did post a picture of Sen. Robert Smith, after all. :^)


48 posted on 05/27/2005 11:59:46 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Starter

>> Since you're not providing the ladies with it... <<

... and I provide the ladies just fine, thank you.


49 posted on 05/27/2005 12:00:11 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Starter

That's not Spike. The Del Fugees opened up for Billy Idol. *smirk*.


50 posted on 05/27/2005 12:01:16 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Durus

>> All grammar correction aside...who is she? <<

Actually, I didn't know who she was until after I posted the picture. Then, silly Catholic that I am, I felt, "ooh, I shouldn't have done that!"

She played Mary Magdeline in The Passion of the Christ.

Maybe it's just in one of those extra books in the bible we Catholics have, but I'm pretty sure there is something in there about, "Thou shall not inspire lustful thoughts about Saints."

You owe the oracle a tasteful photo of Leilee Sobiesky or Amber Tamblin. (It's OK... she's really 23.)


51 posted on 05/27/2005 12:06:32 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Barb4Bush

ahhh yes, you ask and you shall receive...this must be circa 1980-something....who knows...but who cares
dang I feel old..lol
52 posted on 05/27/2005 12:12:30 PM PDT by Rushgrrl (~brought to you from the illegal-rich state of California~)
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To: Barb4Bush
Is this what you had in mind?


53 posted on 05/27/2005 12:23:46 PM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: weegee
LOL!!!

ED!!!

54 posted on 05/27/2005 12:35:40 PM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
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To: Ladysmith
Lenny Bruce wrote and starred in a movie (Dance Hall Racket) for the same producer (George Weiss) that Ed Wood worked on Glen or Glenda with.

Lyle Talbot has a role in both films. Lenny Bruce referenced some of Ed's cohorts in several of his bits.

When Bela died, Lenny said that Bela had just spent several months in a hospital kicking his addiction; "what kind of example does this show for such treatments?".

He called Criswell some sort of low budget Nostradamus. I think there may be at least one more reference. I don't think that they ran in the same circles when they were both writing articles for men's magazines (Ed's weren't as high profile or "acceptable", Lenny appeared alongside articles from Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, and others).
55 posted on 05/27/2005 12:50:46 PM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: Clemenza

(suppresses "woody" joke he was going to post!)


56 posted on 05/27/2005 1:41:50 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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To: weegee

LOL! Ed Wood rules!!!


57 posted on 05/27/2005 1:42:37 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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To: weegee
Interesting trivia. Two great martyrs to American Weirdness.

(And I might point out that Lenny Bruce, far from being a leftist, was actually a proto-libertarian who praised free enterprise "because it gives you a CHOICE, baby!")

58 posted on 05/27/2005 1:59:22 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

Actually I think he moved to France during the Clinton administration.


59 posted on 05/27/2005 3:28:59 PM PDT by Reverend Bob (That which does not kill us makes us bitter.)
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To: Barb4Bush
The response to that request is that this would be the wrong site for anything glorifying him due to his hatred and comments about America. If he was one of us good guys, I'd be all for it.
60 posted on 05/27/2005 3:39:14 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Pray for us all.)
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