One of the first movies about the Vietnam war The Losers, filmed in 1970, follows The Devil's Advocates as they attempt to rescue a captured CIA operative from a highly-fortified Red Chinese compound in Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam War. C.I.A. operative Chet Davis is a prisoner being kept over the border in Cambodia where U.S. soldiers are not permitted to go. Matt hires his brother Link and his "scooter trash" to retrieve Davis. Link, Duke and Dirty Denny are Viet vets. Duke has really returned to find his lost love. Dirty Denny is owed money as a partner in a bar/whore house. Our heroes deck out some "broads' bikes" (Yamahas) with armor, fill saddlebags with grenades and bravely take on the heavily armed compound where Davis is a prisoner. In the end, the three surviving bikers are captured. They escape with Davis, but are all killed, along with good Captain Jackson in the end while the less than honorable Davis survives.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance," goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs.
Hunter S. Thompson put together a campaign to elect himself as Sheriff of Pitkin county. It combined aggressive radicalism, a higher level of organization than the previous Freak Power campaign, more controversy and danger as well as some frivolous moments.
These would include:
Legalization of drugs on a recreational basis (although profiteering dealers would be prosecuted harshly)
A promised that if elected, he would not eat mescaline whilst on duty.
Rip up all city streets with jackhammers and sod the streets at once.
Change the name Aspen to Fat City. This would prevent greed heads, land rapers, and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name 'Aspen'. These swine should be fucked, broken, and driven across the land.
It will be the general philosophy of the sheriff's office that no drug worth taking shall be sold for money. My first act as sheriff will be to install on the sheriff's lawn a set of stocks to punish dishonest dope dealers.
Now there's no sound except the wind,
The needle leans down on 100,
Wind-burned eyeballs strain to see down the center line,
no room at all for mistakes,
that's when the strange music starts,
The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson
Dennis Hoppers role prior to Easy Rider. Hopper plays Chino, the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get messy when Darryl comes back for revenge.
Alberto Granado (August 8, 1922 – March 5, 2011) was an Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, and scientist. He was the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their trip around Latin America ... read his story here.