Easy Rider Articles

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iup176pNVkc[/youtube] Kristen Stewart chats up with Jay Leno in this brief clip from The Tonight Show. Stewart was there to talk about her upcoming movie Welcome to the Rileys, which could well bring her quite a bit of buzz throughout awards season. Unfortunately, in this initial clip (part II to be posted shortly) Leno mostly talks about nothing, a bad habit that plagues the vast [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]