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Depp keeps legacy alive


One of the great things about the arts is that one can find a mentor in a field that may never know that he or she inspired anyone at all. A recent cover story in a glossy men's magazine popular painted that picture clearly.

Soul of D'Angelo innovative music, finally back in the spotlight after a dozen years, told the magazine about her "relationship" with the legendary Marvin Gaye.

D'Angelo was only eight when Gaye was fatally shot by his own father, and said he started having dreams about the musician of the day.

These dreams, which always after Gaye D'Angelo in any way or other, and you can do with it what you want, but not surprisingly, D'Angelo has often been called the one chosen to carry the baton of Soul.

Because I never knew Gaye D'Angelo may be difficult for some to understand how Gaye could be a powerful force in your life.

Until you take a look at the relationship between Johnny Depp and Hunter S Thompson, who, unlike the kings soul, knew very well together. Depp plays Thompson in The Rum Diary, a film adaptation of a novel written by legendary scribe.

Most people know Thompson as the character of cookie is the father of gonzo journalism. But few know that when Thompson died in 2005, was Depp, who paid all the funeral arrangements.

It was Depp who shot a gun from Thompson in a homemade bomb to win the confidence of the elderly in the early hours of the morning when they met. It was Depp who made sure that The Rum Diary saw the light of day.

The Word says that after Deep portrayed Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in late 1990, the young man found the manuscript of The Rum Diary that Thompson had no intention of reaching the public.

Soon after, Thompson agreed that his manuscript had been written in the 1960s, could be published (in 1998) and even became a movie, but only if Depp was to play the journalist.

Besides both being born in Kentucky, it appears that the couple really had much in common.

One of those things was a love for guns, the other was an appreciation of good literature.

Maybe Thompson was in Depp, who knows? In the frank words of Immortal Technique hard: you do not know s *** about the prospect of a dead man. What we do know is what Depp tells reporters.

Last year, in an article for Newsweek, Depp wrote: "I was of the mind where I knew the worst thing you could do was try to keep up with Hunter in any capacity."

He can not try to keep up with the legend, but the actor has done a very good job of keeping alive the legacy of Thompson.

* Capture Depp in The Rum Diary this weekend.