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For the Global Thinker

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Letters of Note


A great website filled with interesting letters from leaders, celebrities, writers and artists.  Some of them are hilarious like Hunter S. Thompson's expletive-filled fax to Holly Sorensen then Production Executive of the indie movie studio The Shooting Gallery.

 Excerpt From Hunter S. Thompson's Fax:

Dear Holly,

Okay, you lazy bitch, I'm getting tired of this waterhead fuckaround that you're doing with The Rum Diary.

We are not even spinning our wheels aggresivly. It's like the whole Project got turned over to Zombies who live in cardboard boxes under the Hollywood Freeway... I seem to be the only person who's doing anything about getting this movie Made. I have rounded up Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Nick Nolte & a fine screenwriter from England, named Michael Thomas, who is a very smart boy & has so far been a pleasure to talk to & conspire with...

So there's yr. fucking Script & all you have to do now is act like a Professional & Pay him. What the hell do you think Making a Movie is all about? Nobody needs to hear any more of that Gibberish about yr. New Mercedes & yr. Ski Trips & how Hopelessly Broke the Shooting Gallery is.... If you're that fucking Poor you should get out of the Movie Business. It is no place for Amateurs & Dilletants who don't want to do anything but "take lunch" & Waste serious people's Time.

Fuck this. We have a good writer, we have...
Read more here: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/okay-you-lazy-bitch.html 

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