Posted on 01/21/2005 5:19:46 PM PST by ambrose
Dennis Hopper should be hopping mad, some Hollywood actors said this week.
Hopper, who organized The Creative Coalition's Ball after the Ball Thursday night as part of the activities surrounding President Bush's inauguration, apparently got a surprise phone call from the Presidential Inaugural Committee Wednesday night - telling him not to come to his own party.
"I feel terrible that the White House inaugural committee that invited Dennis decided to disinvite him," "Sopranos" actor Joe Pantoliano told reporters at the event, where the entertainment - aside from mingling with some of Tinseltown's stars - was singer Macy Gray.
Hopper reportedly was not given an explanation for the insult. A call to the PIC had not been returned by press time.
Thursday's ball at the Reagan Building in Washington featured names such as Pantoliano - the group's co-director - along with actor and director Tony Goldwyn, Mario Van Peebles, Joe Piscopo, Matthew Modine and other actors. Various politicos like Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also attended.
But many were sorry about the absence of Hopper, who was the organizer and chair of the event and who personally wrote letters to and called the evening's headliners to invite them.
"I was very disappointed. I was told he was all of a sudden disinvited by the Inaugural Committee ... but he's with us in spirit," Goldwyn, who played the dark character Carl Bruner in the 1990 smash-hit "Ghost," and more recently co-starred in "The Last Samurai," told reporters on the red carpet Thursday.
Hopper, a Hollywood icon and long-time actor, director and producer who has starred in films such as "Speed," "Easy Rider" and "Apocalypse Now," is a hard-core supporter of Bush, although his wife did partake in fund-raising activities for Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic challenger in the 2004 presidential election.
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I agree. I'd really like to find out.
There are very few actors who can make you react with such emotion. Hopper is one of them.
Hopper, Dennis Mr.
8/24/2004 $2,000.00
Venice, CA 90291
Self-Employed/Actor -[Contribution]
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
It appears the claim the Hopper gave $50,000 to Kerry is totally bogus (and would exceed the legal limit too.)
Try as I might, I can't ignore your post--what is a "guick"?
Schwartzie's wife is a Kennedy. Somehow they get along nicely. I think there is other news to be found out. Give it a day or so. It will be here like it always is.
P.S. You kinda hate Christians, don'tcha?
I agree. I didn't know that Dennis Hopper was a Republican, but I'm not surprised to hear it. He's always struck me as a true maverick type, and to be a Republican in Hollywood is to be a maverick.
Also, very few people play an asshole as well as Dennis Hopper. He's a fine actor. I've always enjoyed his work.
My old man drank alot of beer with Dennis Hopper during a film shoot in his hometown.
He thought he was a regular guy.
This story is missing way too much to make ANY judgments about anything at all.
I wish I had a nickel for every kneejerk reaction on this thread...
Wow....why are we turning away supporters? Kid Rock now Hopper...and yet they want to give illegal immigrants amnesty?
When was this drinking going on? Hopper's been clean and sober for many years I believe.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Hopper is a Bush supporter.
The Republican Party had better get it's act together on stuff like this. Whoever "disinvited" Hopper will hopefully reflect on this and ask themselves if it was worth the negative publicity.
BWAAAAAHAAAAAA! It is an under-appreciated talent. Andy Griffith could play a pretty good villain, too :)
I don't know. Maybe fifteen years ago or more, during the filming of Sean Penn's directorial debut, the forgettable 'Indian Runner'.
Lots of the scene were in a bar, and my old man owned a bar in the town they shot it in. So he provided them lots of the furnishings for their set.
Charles Bronson and Penn and Hopper and Vigo Mortensen hung out in the old man's beer joint so much they ended up giving him a bit part. lol...He even had to join the union. ;-)
No kidding! Everybody jumps through the roof at the first article they see, only to find out the next day that the story was completely wrong, or at least misleading.
Wow! That's cool.
Well according to http://www.whitehouseforsale.org Dennis Hopper is listed as a $50,000 donor. Someone is lying.
Charles Bronson? Where did he come from?
Also in "Murder in Coweta County"
My Daddy saw his act at the Dixie Sherman Hotel in Panama City, Fl. around 1953. This was before he was famous.
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