Dead at 74.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Dennis-Hopper-Dies-At-Age-72-18788.html

One of my favorite scenes "True Romance" with Chris Walken:

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

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Here's another great one: Blue Velvet

R.I.P

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Should have had his star on the hollywood walk of fame a lot sooner than this year.

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He was really great in the movie HOosiers!

I may have to dig that out and watch it again in his memory!

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I went over to Moscow, Idaho from Pullman, WA (5 miles) with some college buddies to watch Easy Rider when it came out. Used to have the poster of Hopper on his chopper flipping off the redneck.

Quite a guy. I liked him in Waterworld also, a good enough movie IMO.

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I saw him not that long ago in a restaurant in Venice, he looked very old and fragile. He was one of those great seventies actors you don't see anymore these days.
Not many people know this but he was an active republican, sort of surprising after the movies he chose to make.

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Ride on Dennis. Have a nice trip.
You sure weren't born to follow...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhgLjim6Rc&feature=related

But he voted for Obama. I did not catch why though. I gathered that he walked in some of the civil rights marches so he must have been a dem at one time.

It said he started voting R with Reagan....could have been a reaction to Carter, I suppose.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I read he was ill.
Hopper was one of my favorite actors and directors.
Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, Red Rock West.
RIP

He directed, - a good movie called "COLORS" back in 1988 about the LAPD, crips v bloods gangs in the Watts area, of Los Angeles.

It was good, too: almost "cinema verite" with the undeniable ring of truth, even featured a car chase with an old '71 Mercury Marquis near the Simon Rodia tower, a Watts landmark.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094894/

"Easy Rider" was what made him a film legend, though.

RIP Dennis

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X2.

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Lest it's forgotten, I'd better mention that little post apocalyptic gem; Waterworld. It seems to make a lot of people groan, but I suppose I like that Mad Max kinda crap.

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uh, what about "apocalypse now'? (with a name like yours, i would have expected that one.)

"you can't go to the moon in fractions..."

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Waterworld actually made money worldwide. I liked it too. Hopper was great in Apocalypse Now also.

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