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‘The Rum Diary’ needs less sheen, more ‘fear, loathing’

By Ross Hettell | November 3, 2011

Hunter S. Thompson once wrote a book, forgot about it and published it years later. It was called The Rum Diary, and now it's a major motion picture. The Rum Diary is set in the 1960s and follows Paul Kemp (played by Johnny Depp), a journalist from New...