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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 21 March 2018
Erratic Chicano writer who

vanished focus of new doc

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)
— Oscar Zeta Acosta, a
volatile Mexican-American
writer who was the real-
life inspiration for Hunter S.
Thompson's Dr. Gonzo in
"Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas," is the focus of a
This file image released by Disney and Marvel Studios' shows new VOCES/PBS documen-
Chadwick Boseman in a scene from "Black Panther. tary.
"The Rise and Fall of the
Twitter: 'Black Panther' Brown Buffalo" traces the
life of the preacher-turned-
is most tweeted lawyer-turned-writer who
became a central figure

about movie ever in the Chicano Movement
before disappearing with-
out a trace in Mexico in
1974.
NEW YORK (AP) — The pop Panther" became the first Using actors to recreate
culture sensation "Black film since 2009's "Avatar" Acosta's own words and
Panther" has set another re- to top the box office in interviews from friends, the
cord: most tweeted about North America five straight PBS documentary follows
movie ever. weekends. It has grossed the evolution of a Baptist
Twitter said Tuesday that more than $607 million preacher in Panama while
Ryan Coogler's box-office domestically and $1.2 bil- in the U.S. Air Force to "Rob-
smash has been tweeted lion worldwide. In the next in Hood" lawyer who de-
about more than 35 mil- week, it's expected to pass fended poor black tenants This 1970 photo released by Raul Ruiz shows attorney Oscar Zeta
lion times. That pushes it "The Avengers" as the high- in Oakland, California, and Acosta at a demonstration in downtown Los Angeles.
ahead of the previous re- est grossing superhero film radical Mexican-American Associated Press
cord-holder, "Star Wars: The ever, not accounting for activists in Los Angeles.
Force Awakens." The most inflation. Along the way, the El Paso, because it ignored his Mex- cano activists like Cesar
recent "Star Wars" install- Twitter said "Black Panther" Texas-born Acosta ven- ican-American identity. Chavez and Dolores Huer-
ment, "The Last Jedi," ranks had the most tweets in the tured to Aspen, Colora- Following a legal fight, ta, Rodriguez said every-
third. U.S., followed by the United do, where he befriended Acosta gave the OK to one knew that Acosta was
Over the weekend, "Black Kingdom and Thailand.q Thompson and other white publish Thompson’s book not a saint because of his
countercultural figures of in exchange for publishing public battles with addic-
Drumroll please: the late 1960s. The hell-rais- two of his own memoirs, tion and mental illness.
ing pair eventually traveled “The Autobiography of a “He was struggling with him-
It's Sir Ringo as to Las Vegas on a drug- Brown Buffalo” and “The self,” Rodriguez said. “But
Revolt of the Cockroach he was a man of action
fueled trip that Thomp-
became and challenged the whole
son recreated in his 1972 People.”
Both
ex-Beatle knighted novel, "Fear and Loathing classics in Chicano litera- notion (of) what it means to
in Las Vegas." The journal-
ture.
be a Chicano hero.” Rodri-
ist would portray Acosta as Then, he disappeared.
guez said he opted to use
a 300-pound Samoan who Director Phillip Rodriguez actors to re-enact inter-
LONDON (AP) — Call him couldn’t get enough food, said Acosta’s colorful life views and Acosta’s writing
Sir Ringo now, or Sir Richard drugs and danger — a por- made him a great subject. since little archive footage
to be more precise. Either trayal that angered Acosta Unlike better-known Chi- exists. q
way, it's a fitting honor for
the former Beatles drum-
mer, who has waited de- Renee Zellweger transforms
cades for the recognition.
The 77-year-old Ringo Starr
received his long-awaited into Judy Garland for film
knighthood from Prince
William Tuesday. He used
his real name Richard Star- LONDON (AP) — Renee the Academy Award win- to sing in the film, including
key for the big event. He Zellweger has transformed ner playing the troubled "Somewhere Over the Rain-
said the honor "means a her looks and is working on star. bow" from Garland's 1939
lot". It comes more than her singing skills as she starts The movie is set in the late movie "The Wizard of Oz."
half a century after the a new film about Judy Gar- 1960s near the end of Gar- Zellweger sang in the 2002
youthful Beatles first went Former Beatle Ringo Starr, land. land's career and will fea- film "Chicago."
to Buckingham Palace to speaks with Britain's Prince Principal photography for ture the behind-the-scenes Other cast members in-
William after receiving his
receive MBE awards. The knighthood at Buckingham "Judy" is underway in Lon- drama before Garland clude Jessie Buckley, Finn
other surviving Beatle, Paul Palace during an Investiture don, and the producers died in the city at age 47 in Wittrock and Michael
McCartney, was knighted ceremony in London Tuesday have released a photo of 1969. Zellweger is expected Gambon.q
in 1997.q March 20, 2018.