

What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hopper’s Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74?
He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an “emergency restraining order” to keep her at a 10-foot distance. They battled over his valuable artworks. She also filed complaints about him keeping marijuana joints throughout his compound, ready to provide quick relief from pain, and loaded guns in strategic locations, ready to provide quick resolutions.
If a person’s manner of dying is a distillation of his life, then Hopper’s death seemed a revisit of the same stories about a man once called the “patron saint of the deranged.” Never an easy rider.
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I sad. 🙁 He was such a good bad guy in Speed. Naturally he was awesome in Apocalypse Now too. He is missed. Great actor.
this was a great clip
One of my faves. Everybody picks the fucking-fuck clip from Blue Velvet, but this one is closer to the real Dennis Hopper.