Dennis Hopper dies at 74

Sad day for movie lovers around the world. Dennis, you will be missed. RIP.

• Dennis Hopper dies at 74 [CBC News]
• Dennis Hopper: The Hollywood rebel’s 10 most unforgettable performances [CBC News]
• Dennis Hopper asked me: ‘If you could not create, would you die?’ – His roles, his career and his politics are a story of change and reversals; but his unforgettable energy drove him on to the end [Guardian]
• Hollywood Hellraiser Dennis Hopper Dies at 74 [Rolling Stone]
• Dennis Hopper: a friend, a maverick and a truly great artist [Guardian] – “This reminds me of Dennis’s comment about talking to James Dean, when they were really no more than students, and Dean said to him: “Don’t act drinking from the glass just drink!” Essentially this note from friend to friend saw Dennis through five decades of memorable appearances on large and small screens. [...] Inevitably the question on this so sad day is: how will history remember him? Well, he lived long enough for the hell-raising days of his youth to be forgotten, or not even to be recognised by younger generations of filmgoers. This alien from the Sixties, unrecognisable through the whiskers and long hair, riding forever through both real and imagined deserts: it is he, Dennis, who carries with him our hopes and dreams. What did he amount to? What did he achieve? A handful of great acting performances, some wonderful films as a director, three or four incredible art collections dissembled by ungrateful wives, many loyal and devoted friends and the respect of his luckier colleagues. Perhaps the ultimate irony is that he was embraced by the very Hollywood establishment he was determined to bury, and it is now they who will be burying him.“
• An uneasy ride with Dennis Hopper [LA Times] – “If a person’s manner of dying is a distillation of his life, then Hopper’s death seemed a revisit of the same stories about a man once called the “patron saint of the deranged.” Never an easy rider. But the private Dennis I spent a decade alongside, working on his biography, had a different persona. The artist I came to know was a serious careerist calculating his return from illegality and literal madness, tenaciously managing his sobriety.“
• Dennis Hopper dies at 74 [Hollywood Reporter]

Dennis on David Letterman long time ago.

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