Hepburn, Tracy, Cukor that's quite a three-ball.
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Enter Spencer Tracy, who's a little bit of a shady operator but smitten with Hepburn. Gibney's evenhanded depiction may disappoint true believers hoping for a glorified puff piece, but Thompson's ability to speak truth to power with wit and passion comes through loud and clear. Katherine Hepburn wants to win her club championship, but her boorish husband is, well, a jerk. As Johnny Depp, who played him in Fear and Loathing, reads passages from his work, the doctor's friends and family provide a glimpse of the insecure man behind the brash image. Disillusionment led to an erosion of his talent and an escalation of his self-destructive tendencies. Gibney argues that the fire started to die after Hunter witnessed the brutal treatment of protesters at Chicago's Democratic Convention. McGovern, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Steadman, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, and others testify to Thompson's enthusiasm for the South Dakota senator-and hatred for Nixon.
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The author was particularly excited about George McGovern, and chose advocacy over non-partisan reporting. From the movie: The Players Club more on this quote - Blue: I just don't understand exactly why you're charging me twenty percent interest on the money that you loaned me, when you already taking thirty percent out of my check. Though Thompson remains best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Gonzo concentrates on his coverage of the 1968 and '72 presidential elections. Gibney recounts the major biographical details, from birth to suicide, but his film really comes alive when he gets to the late-1960s. Nonetheless, the director's follow-up to the Oscar-winning Taxi shares an interest in the uses and abuses of power. Unlike the Enron executives or Baghram guards, the gonzo journalist didn't bilk old ladies out of their savings or torture Iraqi citizens. Thompson seems like an odd subject for Alex Gibney to take on. After Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side, Hunter S.