“I tend to avoid alcohol when I can,” says Kemp (Johnny Depp), a reporter who has just joined an English-language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Actually, he tends to avoid not drinking.

Johnny Depp's "The Rum Diary" has for too long now been a white whale for movie fans--but the hunt is almost over, Ahab, as a trailer has finally arrived. Based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, ...

Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under Johnny Depp’s auspices, more than three decades later. A ...

Johnny Depp spent more than 15 years building exactly the kind of cinematic résumé that keeps actors from being movie stars, roles featuring weird hair and silly voices. Then he changed exactly ...

For a few years before he put the gun up to his head, Hunter Thompson wrote for ESPN’s Page 2. “Hey Rube” was a sports column, at least in name. But Hunter, never one to be tied down, used the space ...