The erratic and irascible Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, 74, died on Saturday from complications relating to prostate cancer, Reuters reported. Hopper died at his Venice, California home surrounded by ...
Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The subtitle is lifted directly from Hunter S. Thompson’s book “Fear and ...
“Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles” is Mark Rozzo’s debut book, a narrative of a time of unrest and impending change. It is part biography and part ...
If you know the Waterboys, it’s probably “The Whole of the Moon,” a perfect song, now 40-years old, covered by Prince and Jack Antonoff and admired by many more. That lyric I mentioned is in ...
The Hopper biography was his fifth book proposal -- and the first to get more than a slight nibble. His fingers and the keyboard had parted ways by then, but so be it. It's hard to research and write ...
A first advance track from Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, “Hopper’s on Top (Genius),” will debut this Friday, January 10. A companion music video will be released in conjunction with the song. The ...
In the '80s, the cop movie genre was a crowded field full of spectacle over realism. The urban grit of ‘70s morality pictures such as Serpico, The French Connection, and Dirty Harry were replaced by ...
If one were expecting, perhaps even hoping, that the art exhibition surveying the work of actor Dennis Hopper would be glorious, self-indulgent dirt, well, one would be disappointed. Hopper isn't bad ...
As the director and star, Hopper delivered some wildly self-indulgent moments. But it’s Linda Manz, playing a troubled teenage girl, who stole the show. By J. Hoberman One of the weirder episodes in ...
Tom Folsom discusses and signs copies of his Dennis Hopper biography, "Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream" (It Books). Register in advance; tickets $15. At 5 p.m., Quogue Library, 90 Quogue St.