posted by davidt on Wednesday June 02 2010, @11:00AM
northern devil writes:
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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An anonymous person writes:
Dennis Hopper posing before the photograph cropped for volumes one and two of Smiths "...Best"


Update: 06/02 21:01 GMT: An anonymous person posted the correct image, now linked above.
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Dennis Hopper Dies - SFist

1960s icon director/actor Dennis Hopper succumbed to a long battle with prostate cancer on Saturday. He was 74.

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  • Dennis Hopper posing (Score:1, Informative)

    before the photograph cropped for volumes one and two of Smiths "...Best"

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tWqvsW7WRl0/S61pV1XDjgI/AAAAAAAAMhE/fPpizAnIUys/s1600/Actor+Dennis+Hopper+vs+Battles+Prostate+Cancer+On+Death+Bed+%5BVIDEO%5 D+2.jpg
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @01:34PM (#352727)
  • Hmm, never thought about who took that picture. Always thought it was a random shot.

    Interesting story.
    dallow_bg <[email protected]> -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @04:20PM (#352738)
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    "All the people I like are those that are dead."
    • Re:RIP Dennis by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday June 02 2010, @05:00PM
      • Re:RIP Dennis by dallow_bg (Score:1) Wednesday June 02 2010, @09:42PM
    • Re:RIP Dennis by goinghome (Score:1) Thursday June 03 2010, @12:36PM
  • National Public Radio played interviews all this week featuring this legendary actor where he spoke about his life in film and art.

    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."
    mozmic_dancer -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @06:14PM (#352749)
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    "I am the fun and the fair, on a Mozsite for the criminally insane..."
  • Anonymous -- Thursday June 03 2010, @06:10PM (#352795)
  • That photo of a young Dennis Hopper posing with cigarette would have made a great Smiths single sleeve cover!
    Anonymous -- Friday June 04 2010, @06:56PM (#352813)
  • RIP Dennis.

    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.
    Anonymous -- Sunday June 06 2010, @03:59PM (#352832)


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