Word: hoppers
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...this case she is Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael's intended victim. After he spares her, she expresses her gratitude by luring him still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic corruption (barkeep Wayne is also the town sheriff) and reveals the equally conventional link between crimes present and a large crime past...
Even more perverse, from the Hollywood packager's point of view, the film's stars do not have big-time chic and guaranteed box-office appeal, and, Hopper aside, they work in an intense but minimalist vein. Meanwhile, the director, John Dahl (who wrote the screenplay with his brother Rick) is young and virtually unknown...
However, "Casey at the Bat" does not owe its popularity just to the quality of its writing. De Wolf Hopper, a well-known musical comedian of the early twentieth century, was given the newspaper clipping of "Casey" to recite for one of his acts...
...recitation was such a success that Hopper made "Casey" the trademark of his famous act. Hooper wrote later in his life that he had recited "Casey" more than 10,000 times...
Although he is a representational painter (he cites Edward Hopper as an influence), Howe's work is not photographic. A more expressionistic canvas, "Attic Apartment" shows a tall figure standing in a small room defined by sharply slanted ceilings. Howe refers to Edvard Munch as an influence for this more psychological piece...