Word: hoppers
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...flubs a line. Goes to where the action is. Prepares...prepares...becomes. Will throw a punch at a photog or anyone who provokes him. Is a stand-up guy. A man's man. A trusted friend. An actor's actor. A wonderful poet, screenwriter, director. Father of Dylan and Hopper Jack. Even sober, the one to party with. Enjoy the differences in each of his performances. Dark energy exploding like a sun. Shows up everyone with his brilliance. Lives in a moment-to-moment reality. Uses all his senses in his work. Makes the accident work...
...Dennis Hopper is an actor, writer and director. He and Penn collaborated in the Hopper-directed film Colors in 1988 and in Penn's directorial debut, The Indian Runner...
...variety of collaborators who were immaculately talented, but were further along in their alcohol- and drug-dependency than he was (Hill sketches Southern as a functional "user" whose biggest weaknesses were drink and Dexamyl - used to complete manuscripts on short deadlines): William Burroughs and a far-gone Dennis Hopper on an adaptation of Burroughs' "Junky"; Larry Flynt and Hopper on a biopic of Jim Morrison; singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, another "grand" soul, on the aforementioned "Telephone...
...just over a quarter of the way through his first major league season, there is little surprise about anything he does. Suzuki is named American League Rookie of the Month for April? Ho-hum. Suzuki has back-to-back single-double-triple games? Big whoop. Suzuki rifles a one-hopper from the right-field wall to home plate? Yawn. Suzuki is on pace to break George Sisler's 81-year-old record of 257 hits in a season? Zzzzzzzz. Suzuki imprisons Saddam Hussein, discovers a cure for AIDS and beats up Mike Tyson? You expected less...
...play, fielders have to deal with his speed down the line. The Mariners have timed him to first at a Mickey Mantle-like 3.7 seconds. In the bottom of the ninth during another recent match against New York, Ichiro startled several Yankees when he hit an innocent one-hopper back to the pitcher and?whoosh!?missed beating the throw by only half a step. "He caught Mo 100% by surprise," said Yankees left-hander Ted Lilly. "He tore off for the base like a rocket...