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Musicians Pay Tribute to Dennis Hopper
- Posted on May 30th 2010 12:30PM by Liz Colville
Actor Dennis Hopper, who died Saturday at the age of 74 of complications from prostate cancer, was beloved by several generations of movie fans. Many, including a number of musicians and other music industry insiders, took to the Web this Memorial Day weekend to pay their respects to a star of such memorable films as 'Blue Velvet,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'Easy Rider' and 'Rebel Without a Cause.' As reported by NME, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash paid tribute to Hopper on Facebook and Twitter, writing, "You take the great ones for granted until they're gone. RIP Dennis Hopper." The British band Everything Everything also took to Twitter, but chose to highlight some of Hopper's movies for their fans (including the less discussed futuristic '90s flick 'Waterworld').
Har Mar Superstar was emotional in his Twitter tribute: "I love you, Dennis Hopper. Easy Rider and River's Edge are HUGE influences." Katy Perry, meanwhile, recommended her favorite Hopper film: "Watch Blue Velvet. [M]y favorite Dennis Hopper. #rip."
British producer Paul Epworth, who has worked with the likes of Bloc Party and Florence and the Machine, tweeted: "Very sad to post RIP Dennis Hopper... Thanks for the characters you created, especially "mad frank" (referring to his character in 'Blue Velvet'). "Your genius will be missed..."
A number of Hopper's Hollywood peers also took time to commemorate the actor, who was also a director and avid photographer, this weekend.
Hopper was hospitalized in late September 2009 with flu-like symptoms, but was discharged a few days later. It was soon revealed that his prostate cancer, first diagnosed a decade ago, had returned. By March, court documents from his impending divorce from fifth wife Victoria Duffy revealed that Hopper was terminally ill, as the cancer had spread to his bones. He was deemed too ill to receive chemotherapy treatments.
Hopper died at his home the morning of May 29 in Venice, California, surrounded by friends and family.
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juansword88
Like actors Dennis Hopper and Patrick Swayze so many
people have died with cancer especially in North America. I am frustrated why cancer is widespread
disease here. Then who will be next?
ptct63
Dennis was one of a kind,a maverick always true to his beliefs without apology.
An aclaimed actor from Hollywood's golden age,turned independant counter culture film maker ,turned hollywood conservative.
An American icon that loved America!
God Bless Dennis Hopper.....
David S.
Dennis Hopper was an original...love him or not, no one can deny that. RIP.
May 31 2010 at 3:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Detshi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELjOl6PvWA
A great tribute to a great man! You will be missed :(
ColinCody
The greatest compliment one character actor can pay another is to say that he or she is believable. Thus I can say with deepest sincerity that Dennis was always believable, in fact, he was so thoroughly identified with his character that you could not believe he was other than the character he portrayed. That is great acting, and by that highest of all standards, Dennis was truly a great actor though rarely accorded as such because everyone assumed that he was just being himself before the camera. Few other greats have suffered the same fate because few others have been so enormously talented as character actors.
Dennis has only left his diseased body, not ceased to exist. I have no idea whether he ratified his passport to heaven (Luke 9:23f) before his departure. We can only hope so.
There are unconventional cures for prostate and many other forms of cancer available to us now--Dr. Tulio Simoncini famously having one of them. So, there is actually no reason for Dennis to have perished from that easily and quickly curable disease. He was younger than I am and should still be with us in robust health. He had many more great roles yet to do that will now be left undone, and we are all the poorer for it.
bernynhel
One of the things that defines "great ones", for me, is that their passing makes me a little sad to think of going on in a world they will no longer be a part of and that their continuing contributions will no longer be shaping the consciousness of us all. I don't always know who the great are, in this respect, until they've passed and, as it happens, one of them is Dennis Hopper. RIP.
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