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Wayne Ewing
Oct 24, 20111 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 10
In the final episode of The Rum Diary Back-Story Hunter makes a rare appearance reading the book’s Prologue – “San Juan, Winter of 1958.”...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 23, 20111 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 9
Hunter worked the telephone incessantly during the last ten years of his life, and his telcons with Johnny Depp keep The Rum Diary alive...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 21, 20112 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 8 “The Fax”
Hunter Thompson’s FAX to Holly Sorensen of January, 2001 is still infamous in Hollywood. Every writer and author’s frustration with the...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 19, 20112 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 7
Last Friday I found Holly Sorensen working in a bungalow at CBS Studio Center just over the hill from Hollywood. Although still...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 9, 20112 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode Three
“I want FOOD! Rum is not enough alone. I shall entitle my story ‘Rum is Not Enough.’ Or ‘ Not by Rum Alone.’ My stamps, envelopes,...
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Wayne Ewing
Oct 4, 20112 min read
The Rum Diary Back-Story: Episode Two
This Episode opens with Hunter and historian Doug Brinkley exploring the “War Room” in the basement of Owl Farm where Doug found the...
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