![]() Those with more encyclopedic memories will also remember Hopper’s bookends: as a film star who broke into the medium as a contemporary of and co-star with James Dean in Giant and Rebel Without a Cause or his role as a hard-bitten military officer attached to the Pentagon in E-Ring, the shortlived 2005 NBC series that capitalized on the rush to the colors in the wake of 9/11. Or his role as the ruthless, calculating bomber in Speed (1994), which foreshadowed the coming national nervousness about domestic terrorism. ![]() ![]() They’ll recall Colors, the 1988 Hopper film that dramatically defined the rules of engagement in the conflict between Los Angeles street gangs, and the parallel conflict between those gangs and the L.A. Among the well-wishers was Jack Nicholson, who sat next to his Easy Rider co-star wearing the perfect sartorial leitmotif for the moment: a shirt adorned in stars and stripes, but decidedly muted, with black and gray standing for the red and blue.Įveryone who’s ever seen Easy Rider knows what that means.įans of recent movies will probably remember Dennis Hopper as the vein-popping psycho Frank Booth in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, as the manic photographer who evangelizes for Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Maybe you saw the photographs of the event in Hollywood on 26 March, when fans and friends and the media descended on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the Egyptian Theater, to bestow on Hopper his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the 2,403rd such accolade. This painfully extended farewell drew a crowd recently. The one we’ve been enduring for Dennis Lee Hopper ended on Saturday, 29 May, when the writer, actor, director, producer, visual artist, sculptor, photographer and hellraiser of a rare order died of advanced prostate cancer, at the age of 74.
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