yes, indeed, alison. I too always grateful to read his books -- thouhg
also remember tyhe absolute fervor with which I waited for the new
issue of Rolling Stone during the months he was on the Nixon campaign
trail.
& now 12 year-old son Miles is bugging me to let him watch the F&L in
LV movie -- Johnny Depp being his favorite actor -- & I guess now I
must/will watch it with him.
The good doctor's last piece can be read here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1992213&type=story
Pierre
On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> I remember listening to Ralph Steadman, the English cartoonist, on the
> radio
> once years ago, talking about his first meeting with Hunter S.
> Thompson. (I
> think it was for his piece on the Kentucky races). He said he had
> never
> been so sheerly terrified as he was in Hunter S. Thompson's company,
> because
> there was no guarantee at any point that everything might not explode
> in
> anarchy. Steadman, for reasons I can't remember, ended up getting
> sprayed
> with mace and being driven screaming to the airport.
>
> In a way, given his level of self destructiveness and paranoia, it's
> surprising he made it as far as he did. On the other hand, having
> survived
> so much abuse, there seemed something indestructible about him. The
> last
> thing I read by him was a piece just before the US election, when he
> said
> Kerry was certain to win. I wonder how much his suicide had to do
> with the
> insane Nixonian darkness he talked about so many years ago running
> rampant
> again in Washington.
>
> I was always grateful to _read_ his books. Couldn't have stood the
> actuality. But yes, he is miles beyond his imitators; inimitable, I
> think.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>
>
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