Man, it was a weekend of sorrow.
Meanwhile, his house became a magnet for the underground and a hotel for East Coast artists travelling West. Always prone to alcoholism, Hopper added LSD and cocaine to his repertoire and began consorting with the likes of Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary. His behaviour degenerated accordingly.
Hopper marched alongside Martin Luther King, protested against the Vietnam War, and appeared in low budget films about bikers (The Glory Stompers, in 1966) and hallucinogenic drugs (The Trip, 1967).
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After becoming substance-free in the early 1980s he constructed a second career as Hollywood’s favourite villain. Although he could snarl and scare with the best, the typecasting — though lucrative — was a tame conclusion to a career that had started with Shakespeare and roles opposite James Dean.
What you may not have known is that Hopper was one hellluva photographer. Below is a photo of Andy Warhol circa 1963.
See more of his work on the French site Le Blog de Yoland .
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File this under Things We Didn’t Know: Dennis Hopper reading Gorillaz’s “Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head.” Yes, this is a strange choice for a memorial video. But to us it proves the man loves art and had great taste in music.
