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Zusatztext “Dennis Hopper was unlike any human I’ve ever met: consumed with passion for his subject! aesthetically brave! yet possessing a gentle heart. Though I would have said it couldn’t be done! Tom Folsom has captured the real Dennis.” Informationen zum Autor Tom Folsom is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld . Folsom is also a writer, director, and producer of documentaries, and his work has appeared at Sundance and on A&E and Showtime. He lives in New York City with his wife. Klappentext The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider . Theprophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now . Thekid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause . Dennis Hopperhas been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued bydemons, and one of the most important champions of the popartmovement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, andmentor to Sean Penn, Dennis Hopper built a career that wasa half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of Americanpopular culture. Tom Folsom's Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis's manylives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellowactors, artists, musicians, and residents of Taos, New Mexico,as well as his ex-wives and many other people who knewhim, Hopper takes you on an extraordinary—and sometimestroubling—journey. Tom Folsom has crafted a biography asunconventional as Dennis Hopper himself. Zusammenfassung As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now . The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet . The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause . The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture. ...
