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...Hopper's name was taken off Hollywood's blacklist, and with studio financing, he went off to the jungles of Peru to make another visionary film, prophetically titled The Last Movie. Image rich but incoherent, it vanished almost overnight and so, as far as Hollywood was concerned, did Hopper, who went into a self-imposed exile in Mexico and Europe, where he acted in a few movies, and in Taos, N. Mex., where he had a house...
That remark, yes -- plus a not altogether undeserved reputation as the Wild Man of Hollywood; Hopper has been shocking and irritating movie people for more than 30 years. Born in Dodge City, Kans., he achieved success at 18 when a TV role brought offers of contracts from seven studios. "I believed I was the best actor I knew at my age," he says. "That is, until I saw James Dean % on the set of Rebel Without a Cause. I realized I didn't know anything. I wanted to know his secret. 'Don't act it,' he said. 'Don't indicate...
...following five years in Manhattan, studying with Lee Strasberg and appearing in more than 140 TV shows. He also met and married Brooke Hayward, the daughter of Producer Leland Hayward, and she introduced him to her friend Peter Fonda. Teaming for a series of low-budget motorcycle movies, Hopper and Fonda were ready to turn in their Harley-Davidsons when they decided to make just one more, for the money. "We saw it as a western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing, drug-dealing...
...Hopper's rebirth came when he entered a drug-rehabilitation program in April 1984. Since then, he says, he has not taken so much as an aspirin and has worked almost nonstop. Besides appearing in Blue Velvet, he will be seen, again playing broken-down characters, in two other upcoming movies, Hoosiers and River's Edge...
...only now seems to be moving? In a word: no. "It's too late to have regrets," he says. "It happened." But he would like to play, before he turns 70, something other than psychopaths and advanced neurotics. Perhaps even a born-again actor. Anyone interested in The Dennis Hopper Story...