{"id":11267,"date":"2010-06-01T06:45:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2010-06-01T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T09:01:11","slug":"dennie-hopper-1936-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/dennie-hopper-1936-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Hopper (1936 &#8211; 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, it was a weekend of sorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/7786470\/Dennis-Hopper.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Dennis-Hopper-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dennis Hopper 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Dennis-Hopper-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Dennis-Hopper-1.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/7786470\/Dennis-Hopper.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">his house became a magnet for the underground and a hotel for East Coast artists travelling West<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After becoming substance-free in the early 1980s he constructed a second career as Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favourite villain. Although he could snarl and scare with the best, the typecasting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d though lucrative \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was a tame conclusion to a career that had started with Shakespeare and roles opposite James Dean.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What you may not have known is that Hopper was one hellluva photographer. Below is a photo of Andy Warhol circa 1963.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.yolandmoutama.fr\/2010\/05\/30\/dennis-hopper-le-photographe\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andy-warhol-by-Dennis-Hopper-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"andy warhol by Dennis Hopper 2\" width=\"408\" height=\"615\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andy-warhol-by-Dennis-Hopper-2.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andy-warhol-by-Dennis-Hopper-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><br \/> Andy Warhol(1963)<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>See more of his work on the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.yolandmoutama.fr\/2010\/05\/30\/dennis-hopper-le-photographe\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"> French site Le Blog de Yoland <\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2010\/05\/dennis-hoppers-awesome-and-awesomely-bad-sci-fi-roles.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">Dennis Hopper&#8217;s awesome (and awesomely bad) sci-fi roles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-et-0530-hopper-appreciation-20100530,0,906045.story\" class=\"external external_icon\">An uneasy ride with Dennis Hopper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/7786470\/Dennis-Hopper.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Dennis Hopper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>File this under Things We Didn&#8217;t Know: Dennis Hopper reading Gorillaz&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Nf9IkoxwMs&#038;feature=related\" class=\"external external_icon\">Fire Coming Out of the Monkey&#8217;s Head.<\/a>&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Nf9IkoxwMs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-Nf9IkoxwMs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/designyoutrust.com\/2010\/05\/30\/dennis-hopper-the-photographer\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">design you trust<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.yolandmoutama.fr\/2010\/05\/30\/dennis-hopper-le-photographe\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Le Blog de Yoland <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/7786470\/Dennis-Hopper.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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