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Hunter S. Thompson

Posted by RRC on June 17, 2009 at 14:07

In Reply to: Hunter S. Thompson posted by Smokey Stover on June 17, 2009 at 02:24:

: : : Again with Hunter S. Thompson: "I voted for Dick Gregory in 68, and for 'No' in 64..." Does it mean he voted neither of the candidates or what? And another one about Frank Mankiewicz: Thompson calls him "the wizard of Chevy Chase". Chase has done movies since 1968, but this still seems somehow incomprehensible combination. And thanks to Brian from Shawnee, "gila monster trip" would've gone unsolved without you. (I'm translating Thompsons "The Great Shark Hunt" into Finnish, and I'm sometimes completely lost with this political jargon from 60's & 70's. Maybe its got something to do with the fact that it all happened before I was even born and on the other side the globe...)

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: : Chevy Chase was a place long before it was an actor...

: : DFG

: A place in Maryland. Thompson's phrase suggests that Mankiewitz lived there. Did he? He wasn't born there, so far as I can discover.
: SS

I would despair of even translating it into 2009-ish. I believe Wizard of Chevy Chase (itself a play on the Wizard of Menlo Park = Thomas Edison) is making a comparison between Mankiewicz and Elmer R. Gates who despite being an accomplished inventor became known as something of a crackpot.

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