ruthlessly culled from popbitch.com, i thought this was a funny story..
A few years ago Dennis was flicking through the racks of CDs in Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. He comes across a copy of The Smiths Greatest Hits, with a photo of a tattooed biker with quiff and his kohl-eyed girlfriend on the cover.
Dennis recognises the photo as his! Goes postal and gets his agent on the phone, threatening to sue The Smiths for stealing his work!
Agent says that Dennis signed the picture over during one of his 'lost weekends/weeks/months'
"Did I get paid?"
"You did Dennis"
"I can put the gun away then."
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Dennis Hopper posing (Score:1, Informative)
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RIP Dennis (Score:1)
Interesting story.
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Hopper/Dean Connection (Score:2, Insightful)
Besides the photograph, the other connection to the Smiths, although not directly, would be his association with James Dean, where he co-starred with in "Rebel without a Cause" and "Giant". He considered Dean a mentor of sorts. He also admitted to having an affair with Natalie Wood.
My favorite Dennis Hopper moments was watching him in "Apocalype Now" and his unforgetable potrayal of Frank in "Blue Velvet."
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Dennis/Smiths photo exhibition (Score:0)
Young Dennis Hopper Pic (Score:0)
RIP - Remembering Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010 (Score:0)
Someone said it better on "The Times Online":
No question he had talent: not only was he a more-than-decent actor, he had the eye — he was an accomplished photographer and a discerning collector of art, buying Warhols and Lichtenstein’s before anyone had ever heard of Pop Art. Along with Peter Fonda, he was responsible for Easy Rider (1969), a picture that turned Hollywood upside down. With its casual approach to convention, its refusal to respect the iron-clad rules that governed studio film-making, it held up a mirror to an entire generation of rowdy, anti-authoritarian, drug-taking kids. It was a “me too” movie, one that convinced young, wannabe filmmakers such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese that they could do it too, and better than their elders.
Regards,
Hazard.