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RIP Dennis Hopper

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Dennis Hopper, creator of hit 'Easy Rider,' dies



By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press Writer Christopher Weber, Associated Press Writer ? 4 mins ago
LOS ANGELES ? Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a classic character role in "Blue Velvet," has died. He was 74.
Hopper died Saturday at his Venice home, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The success of "Easy Rider," and the spectacular failure of his next film, "The Last Movie," fit the pattern for the talented but sometimes uncontrollable actor-director, who also had parts in such favorites as "Apocalypse Now" and "Hoosiers." He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
After a promising start that included roles in two James Dean films, Hopper's acting career had languished as he developed a reputation for throwing tantrums and abusing alcohol and drugs. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun.
He also married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. In January 2010, Hopper filed to end his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who stated in court filings that the actor was seeking to cut her out of her inheritance, a claim Hopper denied.
"Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck."
All was forgiven, at least for a moment, when he collaborated with another struggling actor, Peter Fonda, on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on a motorcycle trip through the Southwest and South to take in the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home.
"`Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics. One through nine. No maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, with fractions. What are you going to land on – one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics, okay? Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate. You either love somebody or you hate 'em.

This is the way the fucking world is. Look at this fucking shit we're in, man! Not with a bang. A whimper. And with a whimper, I'm fucking splitting, Jack.
 
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The more I think about this the more I'm completely bummed. I could usually give too shits when a "celebrity" dies. But you know what? Hopper was a fucking icon in my book. I hate thinking about the mortality of an icon . . . .
 
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Dennis was a terrific guy and always willing to stop and talk. A big contributor to the Taos art scene and renovator of the the Mable Dodge Luhan House (Mable Dodge Luhan "Winter in Taos" writer).
from the Taos News obit.

Artist-filmmaker Dennis Hopper dies at age 74

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Dennis Hopper, photographed in May 2009 at the Harwood Museum in Taos. Photo by Rick Romancito ? The Taos News



By Rick Romancito

Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:55 AM MDT

During the ?Hopper at the Harwood? event in May of 2009, Dennis Hopper looked a bit frail, but flashes of his old bad boy humor shone through from time to time. Some who attended public events associated with the exhibitions at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos remarked about how tired he looked. They hoped it wasn?t anything serious. It was.

Within a few months, Hopper announced that he had terminal prostate cancer and that it was inoperable. Although doctors treated it as best they could, Hopper?s battle with the disease was finally over Saturday (May 29) when he died at 8:15 a.m. at his home in Venice, Calif. surrounded by family and friends, according to media reports. Plans for a memorial and burial have yet to be announced

Most would say that Hopper, 74, led a tumultuous life, tempered over the last few decades by age, sobriety and a more conservative outlook, but challenging nonetheless especially in his final days.

A ravenous gossip news media painted his last months and weeks with slashes of personal anguish. In January, Hopper chose to divorce his seventh wife, Victoria Duffy, mother to his 7 year-old daughter Galen. It was a decision that set to blaze rumors over the ?real? reasons. Then, a restraining order against Duffy was granted in February, and in the last few days, Hopper?s own assistant added to the gossip by filing court papers alleging a death threat from Duffy.


Oddly enough, this was nothing compared to the ups and downs Hopper survived as one of the hardest living celebrities to rise out of the Hollywood hippie era.

Hopper has a long history in Taos, dating back to his ?Easy Rider? years in the late 1960s. At one time, he owned the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, where he edited his failed epic, ?The Last Movie,? and where he was married for a week to actress Michelle Phillips. Hopper also owns property in Taos and is said to have visited often.

His last major public appearance here was during the 2009 ?Hopper at the Harwood? exhibitions at the University of New Mexico?s Harwood Museum of Art. The shows, in conjunction with the town of Taos ?Summer of Love? tourism campaign, featured a collection of artworks by his friends and contemporaries Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Ronald Davis, Ken Price and Robert Dean Stockwell, as well as a selection of his own works in photography.

Hopper was recently honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an extensive retrospective exhibition of his artwork is planned by Julian Schnabel that is set to open later this summer in Los Angeles.

Hopper is survived by four children.
 
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