Hunter S. Thompson Funeral To Be Screened In Brooklyn

For FishbowlNY readers stuck in the city for the July 3rd holiday:

WHEN I DIE
directed by Wayne Ewing
60 min 2005 USA English Color
East Coast Premiere


Hunter S. Thompson stated in a 1978 interview that he wanted a 150 foot obelisk built in his backyard from which his ashes would be shot five hundred feet into the air over his beloved Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colorado. When I Die documents the construction of the good doctor’s Gonzo Monument and the trials, tribulations & triumphs of his elaborate funeral production.

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