Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, the Road. In his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that...
...what kinds of educational titles do you have?" I asked the fellow behind the counter. He scratched his chin. "What about Rocky Hopper's Penguin Racing?" he asked, flipping the jewel box my way. "You press the buttons. The penguins waddle." Nah. My kids hate bird racing. What else you got? "Well, Boxer's Road is good," he said. "You manage a boxer hour by hour--his diet, his exercise regimen." How do you understand it? I asked, "Do you speak Japanese...
...Edward Hopper was one of Diebenkorn's inner jury of admired masters--no other American painter except de Kooning influenced him as much. What he liked in Hopper, Diebenkorn once laconically said, was "the diagonals." Not the mood: you can't extract a Hopperish melancholy from Woman in a Window, 1957, though her face is averted. What she might be thinking doesn't count; she's a model, not a narrative. What does count is the confluence of vectors--the square window with its two planes of blue sea and sky, the tabletop rushing away to the right...
...profuse, too sprawling--too damned much all round--to take in with any sort of ease. Curated by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, its bulk (some 400 works in all media) creates the fatigued impression that everything in Rauschenberg's vast and uneven output has been dumped into the hopper and left for the individual viewer to sort out. Which is fine if you've followed the artist's work over the decades, but it must be intimidating if you're new to it; and the younger part of its audience will...
...Annie, but the combination of pluck and vulnerability that made her so winsome in the Ur-Speed is missing here. This time she exists mainly to get tied up and abducted by Willem Dafoe, an actor who can never quite transcend (or enjoy) his inherent weirdness the way Dennis Hopper does. Jason Patric and his rippling pecs fill in for willowy Keanu Reeves as Annie's protector (and, in this case, lover). He's stalwart and athletic, but fundamentally uninteresting...