Dennis Hopper R.I.P.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37414779/ns/today-entertainment/

o wow, rip

RIP.

:(

Pops up in so many movies I love. RIP.

:( One less person in this world like Frank.

video tribute

RIP

Didn't even know he was sick. RIP Dennis.

RIP

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515Y046CQFL.jpg

Oh no, who will tell Shriroi Basketshoes?

will he actually rest in peace? somehow i doubt it. so many bizarro movies. wouldn't even know where to start. and he really did seem as bizarro in real life.

RIP Dennis.
Have had the "American Dreamer" poster hanging up at work for years.

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known to one generation for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic "Easy Rider," best known to another generation as Frank Fucking Booth, died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer, a friend told Reuters. Hopper was 74.

The two-time Oscar nominee, who appeared in more than 100 films, last March got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

^^ kinda crazy how long it took him to get a star!

aw, fuck this, RIP

Here's a cool video retrospective someone posted last month:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-middle-word-in-life-20100406

not surprised (since it was well-known how sick he was). but shit, RIP.

Yeah, it was getting to the point where it was more of a surprise every day he didn't die. He was one of the last people I ever expected to turn neo-con in his later years, but I think he half-returned to the righteous path before his illness. R.I.P.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/_archive/Entertainment/_Celebrity%20Slideshows/G-M/ss-100119-Dennis-Hopper/ss-100329-hopper-mw03.grid-8x2.jpg

:(

Curse cancer, etc...

why do i feel suddenly feel like the world is a safer place?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJtGCvKpEWM

Watching those clips of him in the '50s is amazing. He barely changed at all. He was always a poet, always a little unhinged.

gdammit i can make my peace with ppl dying but i cannot accept ppl wasting away to living skeletons like that, fuck a cancer so hard...

RIP

gotta get my poster of this framed:

http://i47.tinypic.com/mcuudt.jpg

so fucked.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l370gdiTSE1qz9mxzo1_500.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlfnm9gV52w

Hopper could always be relied upon to do something interesting onscreen. He was obviously fully engaged and therefore was engaging. It's always sad to lose someone like that. He was an ornament to his craft. (I am glad I didn't have to live in the same house with him, though.)

RIP, indeed.

RIP, saw Blue Velvet for the very first time recently. Unforgettable.

getting to that age now wherer all my fave actors are dying :(
Real shame, RIP

trying to think, who else was appearing in major films in the '50s that's still doing so today?

When my grandfather first moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s he stayed on Dennis Hopper's couch for a while until he could find his own place, get a job etc. Always came across as a pretty down to earth dude.

Very cool story.

RIP angry but cool dude. Every punk I know is a bit tearful tonight.

RIP, i will drink a PABST! BLUE! RIBBON! in yr honor tonight

some dude: lauren bacall

RIP dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhGOAsx16FY

:-((((((((((((((((

His character in "My Science Project" is still my favorite. RIP. He was a fucking LIVING LEGEND.

All the great pictures he worked on, and the scene I'm remembering him for is from a throwaway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA

r.i.p.

ride easy.

(and that scene w/walken is awesome. definitely in my hopper POX scenes.)

OH SNAP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezwa2COcE0

my dad went to high school with him, but he was a freshmen when dennis was a senior (and they didn't know each other)

single-handedly responsible for pabst blue ribbon's resurgence in popularity imo

that mario brothers movie was the worst movie of all-time

^^When Koopa/Hopper turns his two goons into braindead dinosaurs because they're so incompetent = all time morally frightening moment from my childhood. All-time.

fuck, i just heard about this. he will be truly missed.

RIP

i'm a little surprised that my friends haven't reacted more strongly to this news. dunno if it's b/c hopper had been terminal for a while now (so it isn't a surprise), or if my tastes in movies ("blue velvet," "river's edge" and "apocalypse now" are the films i remember Hopper the most for) are just that screwed up.

sorry, DH, you shoulda played me in a remake of Forbidden Planet

(except, let's face it, that woulda turned out bad)

still haven't seen Night Tide, btw.

Samson: You were a biker.
Feck: Yeah, years ago. Oh, man. I ate so much pussy in those days, my beard looked like a glazed doughnut.

http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/142/577/179/f252z0Z9NgygUPb.jpg

saw that revival of THE LAST MOVIE at an 80s NFT Hopper retrospective, it blew my teenaged mind at a time when i was just getting into pretentious arthouse movies - i'd never before seen a film where the credits turn up so late into the 'action'. haven't seen it since, but still fondly recall the film's whole existential western vibe, v similar to rudy wurtlizer's early 70s screenplays

also saw in that season OUT OF THE BLUE, which again i haven't rescreened since, but which i remember being a well-acted realist family drama w/ great use of neil young on the s/t.

a recent viewing of the NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD doc abt Australian exploitation movies made we want to see MAD DOG MORGAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4rsn8rJYM&feature=youtu.be

trying to think, who else was appearing in major films in the '50s that's still doing so today?

― Christina NAGLera (some dude), Saturday, May 29, 2010 2:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

there's a lot, actually. for instance max von fucking sydom appears to be in every hollywood movie made in the last twelve months.

sydoW

most people in America never heard of Max von Sydow til he played Jesus for George Stevens in '65

Surprised there's no Teri Garr thread...This 1965 photo taken by Hopper turned up on my FB wall this morning. If that date's accurate, she doesn't look a day older in Tootsie, 17 years later.

https://i.postimg.cc/pX6FV5M1/terri.jpg

I heard someone crunched the numbers, and it's not Kevin Bacon - it's Hopper, going all the way back to Rebel Without a Cause, dude knew everybody and took a shit ton of photos as well

He was in a film with Basil Rathbone called Queen of Blood and that alone places him within two degrees of everyone from old Hollywood.

(xpost) You should definitely seek out Mark Rozzo's book from a couple of years ago on Hopper and Brooke Hayward. I posted about it in the Dennis Hopper poll thread:

...what a gigantic, Pete Frame-type constellation that moment is of interconnections and collisions.

Same point you're making.

yeah, I heard about that when it came out, maybe I'll hunt down a copy for summer vacation

(Brooke Hayward is still with us! 87)