Dennis Hopper RIP - Page 2

Jagshund · 05-29-2010, 08:40 PM

Loved him in Apocalypse Now & bonus bits in AN Redux.

"The other day he told me that if I did't stop talking he would kill me. And he MEANT IT."

austin552 · austin552's Garage

RIP Brother

m21sniper · 05-29-2010, 09:36 PM

RIP hippy!

sc_rufctr · 05-30-2010, 12:48 AM

RIP Dennis.

I grew up watching this great actor. Damn shame but he lived a full life and was a true artist.

He will be missed. Godspeed Mr Hopper.

LWJ · 05-30-2010, 06:33 AM

One of my very favorites. "Frank" in Blue Velvet was one of most powerful characters ever. I can't think of any real duds either.

Larry

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

gonna miss 'em. just watched easy rider about a month ago. always loved the route 66 shots and hwy 89 shots north of flagstaff,az.(thru the cinder cones).

amazed that prostrate cancer took him down. same as dan fogelberg. easily correctable if caught in time.

godspeed billy!

m21sniper · 05-30-2010, 07:33 AM

It is said that if a man lives long enough that prostate cancer will eventually claim him.

sc_rufctr · 05-30-2010, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by m21sniper

It is said that if a man lives long enough that prostate cancer will eventually claim him.

I hope that's not true. It can be a painful way to go. Robert De Niro has been battling it for years.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Any friend who spells my name right gets extra points.

sammyg2 · 05-30-2010, 10:25 AM

speeder · speeder's Garage

He was a Republican, dumbschit.

Dottore · 05-30-2010, 10:57 AM

Great actor. Lovely guy. To bad his life turned to **** at the end.

Godspeed.

Racerbvd · Racerbvd's Garage

Denis, very cool, I'm sure you will treasure that book...

speeder · speeder's Garage

It's Denis.

That's a great poem and he does a masterful reading of it. He really had an artist's soul. That poem always seemed classically American to me, even though Kipling was British. That's the brilliance of it, though. Everyone identifies with it through their *higher self*, including national identity, etc... IMHO, of course.

Racerbvd · Racerbvd's Garage

I'm not so sure that he was reading it, looked like he knew it..

sammyg2 · 05-31-2010, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by speeder

He was a Republican, dumbschit.

OK sheet for brains, he was a total loser drug addict living the hippie lifestyle for much of his life. That makes him a no-good hippie and doesn't have anything to do with his political beliefs.
He epitomizes the counter-culture for many, and that is a bad thing.
He was married FIVE TIMES and served his last wife divorce papers on his death bed.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, he was "one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts."

BTW since you had to bring up politics, here is a quote from the "man" himself:

"I've always been political," Hopper says, "but I haven't always been a Republican. I was with Martin Luther King [and] at the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. I was a hippie. I was probably as Left as you could get without being a Communist."

Asked what happened, Hopper says, "I read too much Thomas Jefferson and decided that every 25 years you needed to have a change if you're really going to have a republic, and the Democrats had been in power too long."

speeder · speeder's Garage

Whatever, dude. Take all of your fears and phobias over to PARF where they, (and you), belong. You're stinking-up this place.