Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career
The late actor dared to play dangerous, damaged men, while off-screen he remained a fascinating Hollywood outsider
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Actor and director Dennis Hopper
Before Dennis Hopper, who died Saturday of prostate cancer, became a rebel filmmaker or a generational symbol or a legendary debauchee or a Hollywood aesthete and Renaissance man (or a George W. Bush Republican and then an Obama voter), he was an actor. I'm inclined to believe that all the roles Hopper played across 74 years of life and more than 50 years of moviemaking were aspects of his acting career, of his passionate interest in the mysterious fusion of being, imagining and pretending that allows you to be yourself and someone else at the same time.
Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career
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