Actor, director Dennis Hopper dies at 74
Actor, director Dennis Hopper dies at 74
Dennis Hopper, the rogue actor and director who kickstarted a new era of indie moviemaking with his trippy ’60s road picture, Easy Rider, who turned a nitrous-sucking villain in Blue Velvet into an icon of roaring weirdness, and who worked in the great American movie genres with any number of great American moviemakers, died yesterday in Venice, Calif. He was 74 and had been diagnosed with …
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