Now comes "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," with Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. The relationship of Thompson and his attorney was the basis of " Where the Buffalo Roam," an unsuccessful 1980 movie starring Bill Murray as the writer and Peter Boyle as his attorney. Hurtling through the desert in a gas-guzzling convertible, they hallucinated attacks by giant bats, and "speaking as your attorney," the lawyer advised him on drug ingestion. In the trunk of their car they carried an inventory of grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, booze, and ether. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a film based on the book of the same name, a stream-of-altered-consciousness report of his trip to Vegas with his allegedly Samoan attorney. Ah, but he was funny before he flamed out.
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