FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS TV Spots
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Marketing FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS was a challenge, as it did not fit into any of the conventional Hollywood categories. Presented here are seven television spots, illustrating the varied attempts to position the film in the mainstream marketplace.
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
In 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta, an activist attorney and key figure in the Chicano Rights Movement, joined his friend Hunter S. Thompson on a road trip to Las Vegas. In 1974, Acosta appeared at the Festival de Flor y Canto, a Hispanic literary gathering hosted by El Centro Chicano at the University o...
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Hunter S. Thompson on Oscar Zeta Acosta
In 1989, Oscar Zeta Acosta's son Marco reissued his father's books The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People, with an introduction by Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson recorded a reading of this introduction for the Criterion Collection in 2002.
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Breakdown on Paradise Boulevard
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