 Animator/filmmaker Ralph Bakshi (qv) tried to convince producer  Laila Nabulsi (qv) to let him do "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"  as an animated movie, done in the style of  Ralph Steadman (II) (qv)s illustrations for the book. Bakshi is  quoted as saying: "Hunter had given the rights to a girlfriend of  his. I spent three days with her trying to talk her into me  animating it 