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Dennis Hopper - Dead at 74
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29 May 2010, 17:48
Doc
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100529/en_nm/us_hopper




LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic "Easy Rider," died on Saturday from complications of prostate cancer, a friend of the actor said. Hopper was 74.

The hard-living screen star died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Venice at 8:15 a.m. PDT (1515 GMT), surrounded by family and friends, the friend, Alex Hitz, told Reuters.

In a wildly varied career spanning more than 50 years, Hopper appeared alongside his mentor James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" in the 1950s and played maniacs in such films as "Apocalypse Now," "Blue Velvet" and "Speed."

He received two Oscar nominations -- for writing "Easy Rider" (with co-star Peter Fonda and Terry Southern), and for a rare heartwarming turn as an alcoholic high-school basketball coach in the 1986 drama "Hoosiers."

"Easy Rider," regarded is one of the greatest films of American cinema, helped usher in a new era in which the old Hollywood guard was forced to cede power to young filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.

The low-budget blockbuster, originally conceived by Fonda, introduced mainstream moviegoers to pot-smoking, cocaine-dealing, long-haired bikers.

"We'd gone through the whole '60s and nobody had made a film about anybody smoking grass without going out and killing a bunch of nurses," Hopper told Entertainment Weekly in 2005. "I wanted 'Easy Rider' to be a time capsule for people about that period."

Hopper and Fonda were joined on screen by a then-unknown Jack Nicholson as an alcoholic lawyer, but it was not a harmonious set. Hopper clashed violently with everyone and Fonda later described him as a "little fascist freak." Their friendship was destroyed.

Hopper fell ill last September. He continued working almost to the very end, both on his cable TV series "Crash" and on a book showcasing his photography. But his final months were also consumed by a bitter divorce battle with his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy.

Indeed, his private life was never dull. His marriages included an eight-day union in 1970 with Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas, who later told Vanity Fair that she was subjected to "excruciating" treatment.

Hopper is survived by four children.
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29 May 2010, 17:51
Chris
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Yeah, I'm looking at his filmography and all I see is, "Super Mario Bros."
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30 May 2010, 02:09
Aiure
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Apocalypse Now, biatch. XD
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30 May 2010, 02:12
Chris
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Yeeeeeah... Super Mario Bros.
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30 May 2010, 02:19
Aiure
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Granted, I like Apocalypse Now more for Brando than Hopper. But I still like his performance more in that than in Super Mario Bros. :D
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30 May 2010, 02:31
Chris
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Are you implying that you liked Super Mario Bros. at all? I don't know one person in the world that liked that movie.
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30 May 2010, 04:29
Aiure
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Actually yeah, I did like it. It was a bad, bad movie, but I still enjoyed it. lol
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29 May 2010, 17:48
Tommy Decentralized
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wtf! :(
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29 May 2010, 17:50
ღPhoenix
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was just gonna post this. This is so sad :( Such an amazing talent.
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29 May 2010, 20:26
American
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I didn't watch many of his films, but he was semi-popular.
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29 May 2010, 21:47
HorrorVixen XO
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omg.. now this is sad.. =( it was coming tho... he was su h a good actor!! he was funny in all his movies.. wow.. RIP MR HOPPER
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