Dennis Hopper has died

Source: The Gazette

Just breaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Hollywood+hellraiser+Dennis+Hopper+dead/3087858/story.html

:(

This comes as no surprise, but RIP, Dennis.

Claimed he had voted Republican originally because he read that, if a Party--any Party--has been in power over 20 years, it's your duty to oust them. (I forgot who Hopper said had written that, but, IIRC, it was an impressive person.)

I've seen/heard him say enough to indicate he was a right-winger all the way.

now he was a character on screen and off! wow - what a sucky week.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Hollywood+hellraiser+Dennis+Hopper+dead/3087858/story.html

PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!!!!!

:toast: :grouphug: :cry:

RIP Mr. Hopper.

Who else is in poor health? Coleman and Hopper had both been battling health problems for some time.

That was this week too!

I knew his daughter.

was 97 and had very optimistically booked a speaking gig for his hundredth birthday. Not fond of his politics, but I certainly remember his House Party shows and the enjoyment he got out of those interviews with little kids.

Never knew he was born in Canada and adopted by an elderly couple or that besides losing his daughter to her suicide, he lost one son to a car crash and another to illness at age 70.

for our generation

Can't do it any better. Good bye dear man.

Quite a life and so glad he passed this way...one of a kind.

:cry:

u made me dream. and still do.

Source: TMZ

We're told his family was by his side when he passed.

Hopper had recently been suffering from prostate cancer and going through a difficult divorce from his wife Patricia.

Hopper is best known for starring in the 1969 classic "Easy Rider."

Story developing .

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/05/29/dennis-hopper-dies-dead-easy-rider/

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Ok, not the best source. I also had a pop-up alert from Yahoo, so I tend to believe it.

I'll look for other links.

RIP
Rest In Peace,
Ride In Peace.

the lifestyle associated with liberal ideas and the 1960's social mentality. He also had an admitted feud with Peter Fonda regarding the money Easy Rider made. He was and excellent actor.
Too bad he supported an administration that tortured and murdered innocent people.

He was a brilliant actor.

May he rest in peace, now...

:-(

Even more sad how he got all crazy at the end and launched a divorce on his wife.

When was he not all crazy?

He made real fictional characters that were even more crazy that those I knew in real life. I just re-watched a couple of scenes from Blue Velvet. Just his look watching Dean Stockwell mime "In Dreams" has so much emotion.

I remember him from Rebel Without A Cause It was 1955, I was a junior in high school and had a crush on James Dean. Memories...!

Rest in peace, Dennis. You have earned it!

Blessings.

Classof56

But he also turned into a raging Republican douchebag in the latter years of his life, supporting both Bush presidencies. It ruined whatever real respect I had for the man, but I still respect him as an actor.

But politics doesn't affect how I view performers, if I'm a fan of their work. Case in point is Robert Duvall, a brilliant actor who has some twisted views of the world. And Michael Caine is a hardcore conservative Tory supporter.

One of many moderates left behind by the reactionary politics of the Republican party.

See you around the bend.

I was just remembering him as the mad bomber in Speed. Maybe it was fitting that he was Republican since he was usually creepy and evil.

Anything, take a deep one, and lets let our friend pass in peace.

My dad died from cancer, but it was "multiple myeloma"...bone marrow cancer...and by the time they diagnose you with that particular form of the disease, you are a dead man walking (he died a month after the diagnosis). It is not considered "treatable." But the doctor put him through a round of chemo anyway. My mom went nuclear on him, and rightfully so..."Why did you put him through that when you KNEW it wouldn't do any good?"

Oh well...he got paid, so that's something positive, right?

:sarcasm:

And for the record, the doctor DID admit that the chemo was a one in a million shot at doing anything other than making my dad puke his guts up.

I've been a Dennis Hopper fan for most of my life, and my sadness at his passing is mixed with a sense of relief that his suffering is over.

There are a lot of ways to die. Cancer shouldn't be one of them, but it is.

R.I.P., Dennis.

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May your road to the hereafter be an expressway.

An iconic figure of our generation has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Easy Rider is one of my favorite movies. Ride easy Dennis!

R.I.P. you lucky bastard

I missed this.

n/t

He made a great 'bad guy' in a lot of movies.

I always enjoyed Hopper's work and Ron Silver's. Lyle Lovett played at the 2001 inaugural, and I recently read that Chris Hillman, whose music I have loved for 45 years, is a supporter of the Traditional Values Coalition. Heartbreaking.

RIP Dennis.

It appears that one too many Flying Burritos served up at the Gilded Palace of Sin has triggered a radical swing of the pendulum into the politically red "overcorrection" zone.

One of his classic creapiest scenes imo.

Geez.... I suppose this was inevitable knowing his condition was worsening.

Hope you have finally found dry land...

(yes, had to do it since the M$M obits seem to keep ignoring his work in Waterworld)

Rest in peace, wild man!

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

I love how he realizes that he is about to die any way so he has his last cigarette and then starts the Sicilian thing. Classic.


and yes that is James Gandolfini "Tony Soprano" who cuts his hand

:rofl: I still pee myself when I watch it!

I've bought the DVD years ago. :thumbsup:

That's the one with a young Keifer Sutherland and its got a great ending.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

Walken is brilliant and so was Hopper.

and I loved the hell outta him. My youngest daughter has the same birthday...we are grateful she isn't quite like him :rofl:.

He will be sorely missed, by me, and many others. RIP Dennis, thanks for all you gave :hug:

His politics were all over the place, depending upon the period in his life, most recently had moved back towards the Dem side of the world. He seemed to be more attracted to the dark side when he was relatively sober and somewhat drug free.

Blue Velvet is certainly in the running as one of the strangest movies ever filmed in NC (or most anywhere else, for that matter). While filming BV, Hopper bought his first property in Wilmington and became quite active in developing training programs for actors and trades.

His many wives and their other spouses make for a really interesting collection with strange connections all over the place.

When I heard last year that he had advanced prostate cancer it hit home, I had just had surgery for state 3 PC. Let this be a reminder to all of you -- get your PSA tested and PM me before you go for watchful waiting.

The strangest comment I ever heard anyone make about Dennis Hopper was "He seemed so different in McCloud." They were totally clueless, I started to explain, and realized there was no way I could explain Dennis Hopper to this lady.

"Born to be wild"

<snip>

"I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work.

"I was the first person in my family to have been Republican," he added. "For most of my life I wasn't on the left."

"I pray God, Barack Obama is elected," he said, calling the current administration's many "lies."

<more>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-supporter-dennis-hop_n_134433.html

<snip>

"Dennis Hopper: I Voted For Obama Because Of Palin (VIDEO)"

"Hopper said that he had been a Republican since Reagan, but the choice Sarah Palin pushed him over the edge and he voted for Barack Obama instead. He then told a lovely anecdote of Obama saying kind words to him about his mother's death once."

Video of Hopper on the view.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/dennis-hopper-i-voted-for_n_140940.html

So many good and crazy movies.

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

RIP, Dennis. Say hi to Jimmy for me.

"Alright, Let's hit the road!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055230/

One of my favorite.

So sorry to hear this.

I normally speak out against getting all gaga over celeb deaths or for that matter, celebs in general.
however this is one of the best actors ive ever seen. im gonna miss this guy

RIP Dennis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkmbLoaORU&feature=youtube_gdata

That's a very good link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkmbLoaORU&feature=yout...

:hi:

That movie was really influential for me and that's one if my very favorite scenes from it. I know everybody always went gaga over Fonda's Captain America bike but I always liked Hoppers Billy bike better. So much so that I had a bike I owned in the 80s painted in a similar paint scheme. It wound up looking quite a bit like Hopper's bike but it was a shovel rather than a pan. I wish I would have kept it now.

I loved his last series called Speed. You could notice his health decline.

That one movie where he was a lawman and held a gal captive in his basement --- oh that was scary!

He was one of my very favorite actors. RIP!

Wrong!

RIP, Dennis... :cry:

That was one of my favorite movies.
Man, he was in tons of great movies.
A whole bunch that were favorites of mine.
I haven't seen all of the movies he was in yet, though.
Now I get to watch him act after he has passed over to the other side.

Put in a good word for me, Dennis.
You rocked the world while you walked upon the face of the earth!!

He was talented for sure...

You can turn on a wide variety of films and find Dennis Hopper is in it. Alot of times you'll see him in a movie and say "I didn't know Dennis Hopper was in this."