Clifford Worley: You're Sicilian, huh?
Coccotti: Yeah, Sicilian.
Posted on 08/16/2005 11:04:54 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
As an unexpected shower cascades outside, Dennis Hopper walks into the hotel dining-room as if the sun has just burst through the clouds. Wearing jeans, a tie and a powder-blue jacket, he has a huge cigar wedged in his mouth - one of the few vices left to a man who, at his worst, consumed half a gallon of rum, 28 beers and three grams of cocaine a day. Looking more like a movie mogul than the counterculture icon of Easy Rider, he is in celebratory mood. "This is my 50th year in the film business," he announces, his grey moustache tickling his nostrils as his mouth breaks into a wolfish grin. If anything, he should be toasting survival. Four divorces, studio blacklists, court cases, a spell in a psychiatric ward: the 69- year-old Hopper has weathered more storms than a North Sea trawler.
Lucky to be alive, let alone working, Hopper has inevitably calmed down in his twilight years. Now, he's a grandfather, plays golf with Jack Nicholson, votes Republican and lives contentedly with wife number five (since 1996), the actress Victoria Duffy.
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I've seen the E-Ring pilot.
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.
"Don't you look at me... Don't you f* look at me!!"
you in the biz Range?
Then it gets hazy.
Pans down to close-up of grass and earth and ants with amplified sound as they crawl on a human ear that has been separated from its former owner.
Clifford Worley: You're Sicilian, huh?
Coccotti: Yeah, Sicilian.
Hopper is a true Hollywood survivor. Roles in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL, TRUE GRIT, EASY RIDER, BLUE VELVET, HOOSIERS, ..... quite a list!
Wasn't he in the movie True Romance? He had some hysterical lines in that flick.
Hopper is a true Hollywood survivor. Roles in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL, TRUE GRIT, EASY RIDER, BLUE VELVET, HOOSIERS, ..... quite a list!
Hopper is a true Hollywood survivor. Roles in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL, TRUE GRIT, EASY RIDER, BLUE VELVET, HOOSIERS, ..... quite a list!
Good to see him come around!
BTW, Robert Mitchum told his girl friend, upon getting his first Hollywood role, - "Stick with me baby and you'll be F*rting thru silk!".
I love romantics.
Ya beat me by 2 posts. Those are the lines to which I am referring. Man, they're great.
"I haven't had a drink or hard narcotics in 21 years."
Notice that he didn't say anything about marijuana, only alcohol and "hard narcotics."
From Speed:
Keannu: "You're crazy."
Dennis: "Crazy? No, Jack, poor people are crazy." (holds up bags of ransom money) "I'm eccentric."
that makes you part eggplant.
Another Mitchum story. He was busted for marijuana possession in the 40s and had to serve a month or two of time. When asked what jail was like he replied 'just like Palm Springs, but with a better class of people'.
"...now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant."
Both Walken and Hopper are awesome in that scene! One of the best in cinematic history, IMO. I'm checking IMDB now to see if and when they have been paired in other movies...
Don't forget his spaced out photographer in "Apocalypse Now."
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