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Charlie Rose leads a discussion of Hunter S. Thompson with Jann Wenner, Graydon Carter and Alex Gibney, the great documentary director (“Taxi To the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) who helmed “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.” As Idolator points out, Rose drops in a bizarre reference to alleged plans by Conde Nast to acquire Rolling Stone, and it looked like, for a moment, Wenner lost his tan.

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• Rob on Jun 30, 2008 @ 10:57 am
  ... and here we are in bat country with no driver.
• kev on Jun 28, 2008 @ 2:52 am
  I caught "Gonzo" at SXSW; it was a lot of fun and had some interesting footage I've never seen before. It had an odd narrative, though, basically skipping everything from 1972 to the last years of his life. One amazing thing the film highlights is how valuable someone of HST's caliber of wit and fearlessness would have been in the last few years. His essay written on September 12, 2001 is frighteningly prescient read it here: http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751