{"id":76312,"date":"2018-03-20T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/erratic-chicano-writer-who-vanished-is-focus-of-new-documentary\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:00:36","slug":"erratic-chicano-writer-who-vanished-is-focus-of-new-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/erratic-chicano-writer-who-vanished-is-focus-of-new-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Erratic Chicano writer who vanished is focus of new documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:99f9c919-c258-44c7-828c-d62f44f31f99 --><\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2014 Oscar Zeta Acosta, a volatile Mexican-American writer who was the inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s Dr. Gonzo in \u201cFear and Loathing in Las Vegas,\u201d is the focus of a new VOCES\/PBS documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo\u201d traces the life of the preacher-turned-lawyer-turned-writer who became a central figure in the Chicano Movement before disappearing without a trace in Mexico in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The PBS documentary uses actors to dramatize Acosta\u2019s own words and the testimonial interviews of friends. As a lawyer in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Acosta defended radical Mexican-American activists.<\/p>\n<p>He later traveled with Thompson on a drug-fueled Las Vegas trip where he was portrayed as a 300-pound Samoan lawyer in Thompson\u2019s novel. Afterward, Acosta wrote two memoirs that become Chicano literature classics.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary airs on most PBS stations on March 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acosta inspired character in \u2018Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1107],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76312"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}