Dennis Hopper Articles

Dennis Hopper will have his day — or rather, evening — on Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday, June 8. TCM has rescheduled its primetime and overnight lineup in honor of actor-director-screenwriter Hopper, who died May 29 at the age of 74. The most interesting-sounding of the five scheduled Hopper films is the one I haven't seen, yet: Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1963), about a sailor [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9GaL_zWyU[/youtube] Kristen Stewart, whose mother is Australian, and Taylor Lautner are interviewed on Australia's Channel 10 during the Twilight Saga: Eclipse international press junket. (Robert Pattinson isn't around because he's in Los Angeles, filming Water of Elephants.) The clip above offers one particularly good exchange, as the interviewer asks Stewart about an interview she did with Dennis Hopper, who died on Saturday. Stewart (who looks [...]

Dennis Hopper, an iconic movie figure thanks to the biker movie Easy Rider and David Lynch's nightmarish Blue Velvet, died today at his home in Venice, in the Los Angeles area. Hopper, who was 74, had been suffering from prostate cancer. The revelation that Hopper (b. May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas) had been terminally ill was made public about two months ago, when [...]

Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rosselini in Blue Velvet Dennis Hopper, a late '60s icon thanks to the biker movie Easy Rider, is terminally ill with prostate cancer, according to reports. The revelation was made public after his attorney declared the 73-year-old actor-director could not be questioned by his wife's attorneys in a deposition. Dennis and Victoria Hopper have been in litigation since the former filed for [...]