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Sean Penn called at halftime to say he was feeling disillusioned about Hollywood and wanted to take a year off to concentrate entirely on becoming an expert surfer on Oahu's intimidating North Shore. I had planned to study with him out there, but this huge, dirty, 40-pound cast on my left leg won't work on a surfboard. So I have devoted my "spare time" to writing the screenplay for a movie based on my long-lost, super-strange novel called "The Curse of Lono," which will start shooting in Hawaii before the end of this year.

Hmmm.... Also, from IMDB, we find this entry for The Rum Diary.

One of the best scenes from The Curse of Lono is Thompson and friends sitting on the side lines of The Big Marathon, drinking beer, eating burgers and hot dogs (or some anti-health thing like that) yelling at all the runners running by things like, "Want a beer, fucker?!", or "You're killing yourself!", etc. Or, this vignette as typed up by an Amazon reviewer:

Flying on a jumbo jet to the race in Hawaii Thompson gets his arm stuck in a chemical toilet. He put his hand down there because his marijuana, cocaine, or whatever falls into the toilet bowl. When he comes out of the head his arm and his shirt and stained bright blue. The airliner's crew know at once what has happened.

While I'm still waiting for another book of letters to come out (for the 80's and 90's), any HST news still get a big "Yuh!"