. >> they craved respect the the and ended up making movies with the likes of john cass and jenna rowlands to very good -- two very good movies with a russian director. and one of their most favored, a version of king lear. >> is also a bit of a cautionary tale. >> very much so. the first time i got to go to cannes was in 1987 and you would have thought they owned the city, because to out of every three -- two out of every three posters was for one of their films. there will be full-page glossy ads of the movies they had made or trying to make. but they overextended themselves. they invested in theaters and bought movie theaters all over england. they were in some shady business in france. and the money went away almost as quickly as they made it. they had a very acrimonious falling out. but work reunited at cannes for this film just about two months before the older gentleman died. but the go-go boys out in france now. we will move onto halloween films. are you a fan of the scary movie? >> a well told scary movie absolutely. i think it harkens back to before we could watch television or m

john lennon is seven years dead and timothy leery might as well be. jerry ruben promotes capitalism. wayne allman and otis redding gone. mama cass all gone. james brown's screams lost their pitch. lynryd skynyrd's freebird crashed into a swamp. the landscape is littered with burned out cases. children of the 1950s who spent themselves over the next two decades like roman candles. but there is a survivor unrepent end and unforgiving lurking in a log cabin high in the colorado rockies. hunter s thompson reached the landmark age of 50. and after a mid-life lull when it was feared he was finished the outlaw prince of gonzo journalism is writing again with the fury of a shark in a feeding frenzy. so those are all i have. every time i do something, i guess my wife's tells me you've gone on too long. so i tried to spare you some long, long, reading but, tried to hit some highlights, tell some stories. we have a couple minutes. if anybody has a question, i will try to deal with something in the time remaining. >> curtis wilkie. those are fabulous stories. we would like, let's open it up for questions. one quick observation, that quote, where you