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Prostate cancer claims Dennis Hopper
“The odyssey of Dennis Hopper has been one of Hollywood's longest, strangest trips,” writes one celebrity Web site. “A onetime teen performer, he went through a series of career metamorphoses -- studio pariah, rebel filmmaker, drug casualty, and comeback kid -- before finally settling comfortably into the role of character actor par excellence, with a rogues' gallery of killers and freaks unmatched in psychotic intensity and demented glee. Along the way, Hopper defined a generation, documenting the shining hopes and bitter disappointments of the hippie counterculture and bringing their message to movie screens everywhere. By extension, he spearheaded a revolt in the motion picture industry, forcing the studio establishment to acknowledge a youth market they'd long done their best to deny.”
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May 29, 2010
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VENICE, Calif. - Dennis Hopper, an actor made famous to multiple generations of moviegoers for films as diverse as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Speed, died Saturday after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 74.
Hopper was known as much for his wild, drug abusing lifestyle in earlier years as his ability to make major Hollywood comebacks.