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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr.

Thompson had largely fallen from the public eye some years before he killed himself in 2005 at the age of 67.

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Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen nor heard home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Thompson is a mostly loving look at Thompson through the eyes of many of his friends and the politicians he wrote about.

That is 17 years past 50.

It created the richly entertaining Gonzo journalist who those of us who admired his work so enjoyed but also planted the seeds for his depression and death.

Unfortunately, Thompson never learned to not take himself too seriously and that failing led to his self destructiveness and, ultimately to his suicide.

Thompson's political positions could have hardly been more different from my own.