The Hollywood actor/director channels gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
TIM ROBBINS, appearing in The Town Hall’s May 5 concert performance of American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic article, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” didn’t just grow up reading Thompson’s works—he lived them for a while.
Like many of the baby-boom generation, actor/writer/director/musician Robbins took the words of Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72” to heart. “I loved him as a writer,” Robbins says. “We would test the limits of appropriate behavior in Las Vegas, let’s put it that way. And it was definitely inspired by Hunter.”
This story is from the May 2017 edition of Where New York.
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