Posted on 08/16/2005 11:04:54 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
As an unexpected shower cascades outside, Dennis Hopper walks into the hotel dining-room as if the sun has just burst through the clouds. Wearing jeans, a tie and a powder-blue jacket, he has a huge cigar wedged in his mouth - one of the few vices left to a man who, at his worst, consumed half a gallon of rum, 28 beers and three grams of cocaine a day. Looking more like a movie mogul than the counterculture icon of Easy Rider, he is in celebratory mood. "This is my 50th year in the film business," he announces, his grey moustache tickling his nostrils as his mouth breaks into a wolfish grin. If anything, he should be toasting survival. Four divorces, studio blacklists, court cases, a spell in a psychiatric ward: the 69- year-old Hopper has weathered more storms than a North Sea trawler.
Lucky to be alive, let alone working, Hopper has inevitably calmed down in his twilight years. Now, he's a grandfather, plays golf with Jack Nicholson, votes Republican and lives contentedly with wife number five (since 1996), the actress Victoria Duffy.
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He was in Cool Hand luke, Hang Em High, Apocalypse Now, Rebel without a cause too. Amazing list of credits. Here's a filmography:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/
Too true... I'm only 34. ;-)
He was also in Rebel Without a Cause.
Another Mitchum story...whenever he began filming on location the first thing he did was meet the Sheriff and meet the best looking blond in town.....
You could say that...in a part of the business but I used to be in Production and Development. Hard to be Conservative surrounded by Kool-Aid chuggers. Gotta keep my mouth shut a lot.
Some good stuff comin out this season...plus a lot of GARBAGE.
Everybody Hates Chris. Gonna be HUGE.
Geena Davis in the White House had a lot of polarizing stuff in it - even the ultra-lefties I work with had "issues" with it. As much as I hope it dies a quick death, they've kept The West Wing on a respirator because of its propaganda value.
I just couldn't take it when he bit a chunk of the girl's cheek off.
Blue Velvet was really, really disturbingly violent....hated to see Dennis play such a violent character....E-Ring will be more to our liking..I hope....
Repo Man - One of my favorite cult movies
Deniro is a great actor but he didn't get it quite right in "Cape Fear".
He creeps me out... man.
From 'Out of the Blue'
DH directed and starred -- "Destory, kill all hippies" was a refrain later picked up by Primal Scream
Destory = Destroy
Sometimes, LOL.
I liked him best in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" with Isabella Rossalini.
Everybody Hates Chris. Gonna be HUGE.
What else do you like.
Do you know if NCIS is still alive?
"This is the way the f***ing world ends! Look at this f***ing s**t we're in, man! Not with a bang, with a whimper. And with a whimper, I'm f***ing splitting, Jack!"
He was walkin' evil in Blue Velvet. I still have bad dreams about him!
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