Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Terry Gilliam
Tim Thomerson
Lyle Lovett
Verne Troyer
Gale Baker
Gary Busey
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Journalist Raoul Duke and his lawyer Dr Gonzo drive from LA to Las Vegas on a drugs binge. They nominally cover news stories, including a convention on drug abuse, but also sink deeper into a frightening psychedelic otherworld. As Vietnam, Altamont and the Tate killings impinge from the world of TV news, Duke and Gonzo see casinos, reptiles and the Amercian dream.
Director
Terry Gilliam
Cast
Tim Thomerson
Lyle Lovett
Verne Troyer
Gale Baker
Gary Busey
Mary Gillis
David Brisbin
Tomoyasu Hotei
Tane Mcclure
Ellen Barkin
Richard Riehle
Ray Cooper
Chris Hendrie
Michael Lee Gogin
Craig Bierko
Donald Morrow
Brian Lebaron
Buck Holland
Troy Evans
Kristin Draudt
Karen B Castoldi
Frank Romano
Tobey Maguire
Christopher Meloni
Michael Jeter
Debbie Reynolds
Judith Lieff
Laraine Newman
Benicio Del Toro
David Heath
Hunter S Thompson
Christopher Callen
Nan Friedman
Mark Harmon
Alex Craig Mann
Richard Portnow
Johnny Depp
Ben Yeager
Katherine Helmond
Stephen W Bridgewater
Geoffrey B Nimmer
Jennifer Elise Cox
Gil Boccaccio
Gregory Itzin
Kim Flowers
Larry Cedar
Kathryn Alexander
Diana Mehoudar
Ransom Gates
Penn Jillette
Chobi Gyorgy
Michael Warwick
Lisa Hoyle
Caroline Dale
Larry Brandenburg
Milt Tarver
Cameron Diaz
Will Blount
Joseph Griffo
Tyde Kierney
Marlene Bologna
Gary Bruno
Christina Ricci
Mia Babalis
James O'sullivan
Harry Dean Stanton
Steven R. Schirripa
Jenette Goldstein
Ben Ven Der Veen
Crew
Doug Aarniokoski
Andrea Adams
Molly Allen
Chris Allies
Sam Andrew
Paul Anka
Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice
Steve Arnold
Burt Bacharach
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Ingrid Behrens
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Tim Bogert
Tim Bogert
Mick Boggis
Rob Bottin
Rob Bottin
Michael Brewer
Stephen W Bridgewater
Harold Bronson
Paul Carr
Patrick Cassavetti
Danny Castle
Melissa Chang
Martin Charles
Lynn Christopher
Eden Clark-coblenz
Michael Colton
Perry Como
Bridget M. Cook
Michael Cooper
Ray Cooper
Rupert Coulson
Alex Cox
Elizabeth Cox
Steve Cropper
Michael Cudahy
Nicholas Cudahy
Steve Cutmore
Hal David
Tod Davies
Lynn Del Kail
Ditch Doy
Al Dubin
Donald Dunn
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Seth Edelstein
Mercer Ellington
Ray Evans
Fernando Favila
Christina Fong
Richard Foos
Amanda Forman
Julie Forman
Joann Fregalette Jansen
Steve Galich
Joe Gallagher
Gary Gero
Terry Gilliam
Chris Gorak
Patricia Gordon
Graham Gouldman
Robert Goulet
Tony Grisoni
Nancy Haigh
Oscar Hammerstein Ii
Motoyoshi Hata
Chris Heeter
Duane Hitchings
Kent Houston
Mark Indig
Al Jackson
Mick Jagger
Jefferson Airplane
John Jergens
Booker T. Jones
Sonia Jones
Tom Jones
Bert Kaempfert
Lawrence Karman
Katie Kissoon
Tani Kunitake
Kevin Lane
Sydney Lee
John Lennon
Dominic Lester
Joe Levine
Jay Livingston
Bruce Logan
Pearl A Lucero
Michael Marcus
Jamie Marshall
Karon May
Paul Mccartney
Alex Mcdowell
Stephen Mclaughlin
Jay Meagher
Gino Mescoli
Gordon Mills
Matthew W. Mungle
Laila Nabulsi
Lisa Nelson
Stephen Nemeth
Randy Newman
Wayne Newton
Cheryl Nick
Vince Niebla
Robin O'donoghue
Tim Olive
Noon Orsatti
Alan Paley
Vito Pallavicini
Philip A Patterson
Nicola Pecorini
Nicola Pecorini
Peter Pennell
Frank Perl
Arthur Pimentel
Doc Pomus
Ellen Powell
Chet Powers
Lee Reed
Arthur Resnick
Debbie Reynolds
Keith Richard
Bob Risk
Richard Rodgers
Susi Roper
Cindy Rose
Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt
Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt
Bradley Ross
Sam Sainz
Terry Sandin
Lia Sargent
Bob Scribner
Dawn Severdia
Russell Shinkle
Tom Shipley
Mort Shuman
Margery Simkin
Frank Sinatra
Charles Singleton
Darcy Slick
Grace Slick
David Smith
Michael Prestwood Smith
Eddie Snyder
Michael Solinger
Buffalo Sprringfield
Ray Svedin
John Swinnerton
Hunter S Thompson
Hunter S Thompson
Willie Mae Thornton
Danny Valencia
Kitty Veevers
Brenda Wachel
Patrick Wachsberger
Lesley Walker
Jacky Ward
Harry Warren
Jim Warren
David Weigand
Julie Weiss
J R Westen
Pete Williams
Trevor Withers
The Yardbirds
Patty York
Neil Young
Laurie Zwerek
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Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Elmer Bernstein, who was not related to Leonard Bernstein, was born on August 4, 1922, in New York City. He displayed a talent in music at a very young age, and was given a scholarship to study piano at Juilliard when he was only 12. He entered New York University in 1939, where he majored in music education. After graduating in 1942, he joined the Army Air Corps, where he remained throughout World War II, mostly working on scores for propaganda films. It was around this time he became interested in film scoring when he went to see William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), a film whose score was composed by Bernard Herrmann, a man Bernstein idolized as the ideal film composer.
Bernstein, who originally intended to be a concert pianist and gave several performances in New York after being discharged from military service, decided to relocate to Hollywood in 1950. He did his first score for the football film Saturday's Hero (1950), and then proved his worth with his trenchant, moody music for the Joan Crawford vehicle Sudden Fear (1952). Rumors of his "communist" leanings came to surface at this time, and, feeling the effects of the blacklist, he found himself scoring such cheesy fare as Robot Monster; Cat Women of the Moon (both 1953); and Miss Robin Caruso (1954).
Despite his politics, Otto Preminger hired him to do the music for The Man With the Golden Arm, (1955) in which Frank Sinatra played a heroin-addicted jazz musician. Fittingly, Bernstein used some memorable jazz motifs for the film and his fine scoring put him back on the map. It prompted the attention of Cecil B. De Mille, who had Bernstein replace the ailing Victor Young on The Ten Commandments (1956). His thundering, heavily orchestrated score perfectly suite the bombastic epic, and he promptly earned his first Oscar® nod for music.
After The Ten Commandments (1956), Bernstein continued to distinguish himself in a row of fine films: The Rainmaker (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Some Came Running (1958), The Magnificent Seven (a most memorable galloping march, 1960); To Kill a Mockingbird (unique in its use of single piano notes and haunting use of a flute, 1962); Hud (1963); earned a deserved Academy Award for the delightful, "flapper" music for the Julie Andrews period comedy Thoroughly Modern Mille (1967), and True Grit (1969).
His career faltered by the '80s though, as he did some routine Bill Murray comedies: Meatballs (1980) and Stripes (1981). But then director John Landis had Bernstein write the sumptuous score for his comedy Trading Places (1983), and Bernstein soon found himself back in the game. He then graced the silver screen for a few more years composing some terrific pieces for such popular commercial hits as My Left Foot (1989), A River Runs Through It (1992) and The Age of Innocence (1993). Far From Heaven, his final feature film score, received an Oscar® nomination for Best Score in 2002. He is survived by his wife, Eve; sons Peter and Gregory; daughters Emilie and Elizabeth; and five grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Michael Jeter, 1952-2003
Jeter was born on Aug. 26, 1952, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He began medical studies at Memphis State University, but soon discovered a love for the theater. After graduation, he pursued his career in earnest and moved to New York and worked as a law firm secretary until he found some stage work and his film debut in Milos Forman's adaptation of the musical Hair (1979).
Jeter spend the next decade landing mostly stage work and making occasional guest forays in popular television shows: Lou Grant, Night Court, and Designing Women, but his unique physical presence (a slight, 5'4" frame, premature balding, owlish features) made it difficult for him to land substantial parts. That all changed when Tommy Tune cast him in the Broadway hit Grand Hotel (1990) in the role of Otto Kringelin, a dying clerk enjoying a last fling in Berlin. Jeter's energetic performance earned him a Tony award and gave him a much higher profile to stake a claim in movies. The following year he made his strongest impression on film to date when he was cast in Terry Gilliam's
He scored his biggest coup when he was cast the same year in the hit sitcom Evening Shade (1991-1994) as Herman Stiles, the wimpy assistant to Reynolds, who played a pro football player turned coach. He won an Emmy award in 1992 for that role and scored two more nominations by the end of the series run. Jeter would also get some good supporting parts in many films throughout the decade: Sister Act 2 (1993), a fun comic role as Whoopi Goldberg's sidekick Father Ignatius; Mouse Hunt (1997); The Green Mile (1999), his best film role as Eduard Delacroix, a condemned murderer who befriends a cellblock mouse; Jurassic Park III (2001); and Welcome to Collinwood (2002).
At the time of his death, Jeter was appearing on the classic PBS children's series Sesame Street as the lovable but bumbling Mr. Noodle; and had been filming Robert Zemekis' Christmas movie The Polar Express starring Tom Hanks. Production was halted on Monday in observance of Jeter's death. He is survived by his life partner, Sean Blue, his parents, Dr. William and Virginia Jeter; a brother, William; and four sisters, Virginia Anne Barham, Emily Jeter, Amanda Parsons and Laurie Wicker.
by Michael T. Toole
Michael Jeter, 1952-2003
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Released in United States Summer May 22, 1998
Released in United States on Video November 17, 1998
Released in United States November 1998
Released in United States December 1998
Released in United States November 2005
Shown at London Film Festival November 5-19, 1998.
Shown at Havana Film Festival December 1-11, 1998.
Based upon Hunter S. Thompson's book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971). As a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, Thompson covered the narcotics enforcement convention in Las Vegas, while under the influence himself.
Project was once in development at Ridley Scott's Percy Main Productions.
Director Alex Cox, who wrote a draft of the script with Tod Davies, left the project in early April 1997 due to creative differences.
Completed shooting October 22, 1997.
Began shooting August 3, 1997.
Johnny Depp receives $500,000 plus a gross percentage for this project.
Released in United States Summer May 22, 1998
Released in United States on Video November 17, 1998
Released in United States November 1998 (Shown at London Film Festival November 5-19, 1998.)
Released in United States December 1998 (Shown at Havana Film Festival December 1-11, 1998.)
Released in United States November 2005 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Tribute) November 3-13, 2005.)