1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: What's up. 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 2: Fans of movie history and true crime. Welcome to hollywood Land, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 2: where we are once again headed back into our archive 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: of stories to bring you this episode on Dennis Hopper. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: Dennis Hopper is more of a Walt Whitman's song of myself. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 2: I contain multitude's kind of figure than we tend to recognize, 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: and in hindsight, he's one of the most important forces 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: in Hollywood history, even if his force was sometimes erratic. 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: He's remembered best for supporting roles in movies like Apocalypse Now, 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: Blue Velvet Hoosiers, and True Romance, where he often played unhinged, 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: unpredictable wild men, men whose minds were lost somewhere in 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 2: the jungle, were somewhere in the sidelines of a basketball court. 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 2: But Hops was more than a guy out on the 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: lunatic fringe. He cut his teeth alongside James Dean and 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: the teenage Revolution in the nineteen fifties, and then he 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 2: single handedly destroyed that system of old pulling the throttle 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: and leaving old Hollywood in the dust with his directorial 18 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 2: debut Easy Writer, which put the counterculture in the driver's seat. 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 2: And I don't just mean the Hippies go on one 20 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: more toke over the line. I'm talking counterculture Hollywood, Scorsese, Coppola, 21 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: Freakin Ashby. I think one can argue that we wouldn't 22 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: have had a new Hollywood without Dennis Hopper. And it's 23 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 2: also arguable that no actor or director had a life 24 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: as insane as Hops did, which you'll hear in this episode, 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: and that's actually kind of an understatement. I hope you 26 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: enjoy this episode on Dennis Hopper, and then I hope 27 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: you join me again later this week, first on Wednesday 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: in the Rap Party, where I answer your texts and 29 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 2: emails and dms, and then again on Friday in the 30 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: screening room, when I talk at length about Dennis Hopper's 31 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 2: third film as a director, the transgressive Out of the 32 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 2: Blue from nineteen eighty. 33 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 34 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywood Land 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: is a production of Double. 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: Elvis Laska used to ride on a mouse gray Mustang 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 3: close to my Side from San Saba's shot on Abacco's Tie, 38 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: a sapling pine that grows on the edge of a 39 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: Kansas fluff and walls with the wind when the weather 40 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: is rough, is like this Alaska, this love of mine. 41 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: The stories about Dennis Harper are insane. He turned a 42 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars hippie r film into a forty 43 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: million dollar box office smash. He hauled thousands of pounds 44 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: of production equipment three hours up the side of an 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: unforgiving mountain in Peru to film a pet project. He 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: cooked peote on a stove with James Dean, He smoked 47 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: bales of grass with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, and 48 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: did so much coke and acid that he thought World 49 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: War or three had started. By the early nineteen eighties, 50 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: he was trying to blow himself up in front of 51 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: a crowd at a speedway in Texas. And Dennis Hopper 52 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: made great films, unlike the clip that I played you 53 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: at the top of the show. That wasn't a clip 54 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: from a great film. That was a fair youse sample 55 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: from the Library of Congress of Harry E. Humphrey reciting 56 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: Frank Desper's poem Alaska. I played you that clip because 57 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: I can't afford the rights to sample Steven Spielberg's film Jaws. 58 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 59 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: Bigger Boat Celluloid Cheese. Could I afford it? Because that 60 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: was the number one movie in America on July second, 61 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, And that was the day that Dennis 62 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: Hopper was arrested after mistaking a tree for a bear 63 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: and shooting the shit out of it with a three 64 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: fifty seven magnum On this episode Bales of Grass, Birthday Suits, 65 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: Bigger Boat Celluloid. It's a dynamite deathchair act in a 66 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: three fifty seven magnum packing Dennis Hopper. I'm Jake Brennan, 67 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: and this is Hollywood Land. From where he stood atop 68 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: the roof on the third story of his twenty two 69 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: room Adobe house, he could see from miles in every direction. 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: The sun was high in the sky, and the edge 71 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: of the horizon sizzled. The desert wind blew in from 72 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: the southeast. The submachine gun was heavy in his hands. 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: It rested on his right forearm. His right finger, swollen 74 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: and sweaty from the New Mexico heat, caressed the trigger. 75 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't the kind of gun that one of his 76 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: silver screen heroes, Arrow Flynn used. Dodge City, the nineteen 77 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: thirty nine movie named for his hometown in Kansas. And 78 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: it wasn't the kind of gun that another of his 79 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: early acting influences, Montgomery Cliff, carried alongside John Wayne in 80 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: Red River. It was a James Cagney gun, a Charles 81 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: Bronson gun. It was the kind of gun held by 82 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: a man on the fringe of society and on the 83 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: fringed end of his last nerve. It was the kind 84 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: of gun that he Dennis Hopper, champion of the counterculture, 85 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: hero of the Hippies, fountain head of the fringe, deemed 86 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: necessary to hold in his hands while he stood his 87 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: ground and beat back the horde of angry locals who 88 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: didn't want anyone like him polluting the water in Taos, 89 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: New Mexico. He had that gun because they were coming 90 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: for him. They were coming to kill him. He could 91 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 1: hear the dull roar of the mob riding on the wind. 92 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: He couldn't make that shit up, a literal, angry mob 93 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: armed with actual pitchforks. The only other sound he could 94 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: hear was the beating of his own heart, accelerated by 95 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: his daily intake of cocaine. Maybe was held some days, 96 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: he just never knew which drug was responsible for what. 97 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: Some days he felt clear in your mind, but your 98 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: soul was mad. That was a whole other story. How 99 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: he had gotten here was an easy story. It happened 100 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: the night before the year was nineteen seventy. The sun 101 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: was going down, the cicadas were out. Some local kids 102 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: in town gave Hopper shit about his buckskin fringed jacket 103 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: and his long hair. Told him they didn't want his 104 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: kind in TOAs go back to La Hippie. Happer pretended 105 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: the verbal daggers didn't phase him. He pretended he didn't 106 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: watch them walk away. He reached inside his pickup, opened 107 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: the glove box, and took out a loaded pistol. He 108 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: kept one eye on the kids as they receded into 109 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: the distance. He walked casually, but with a sense of urgency. 110 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: The sun was gone, the humbus cicadas thickened. He clutched 111 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: the gun tight against his body and thought of the 112 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: sea change in Hollywood that he was responsible for. His 113 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: last film, Easy Rider, captured the zeitgeist to the late 114 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: sixties America. Old Hollywood was moldy Hollywood. Hopper an Easy Rider, 115 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: had ushered in a new style, a new look, a 116 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: new Hollywood. They wore the outfits of the tuned in, 117 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: dropped out generation, not the costumes of the old guard. 118 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: They made love on screen, not war. They talked the 119 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: way they talk, not the way some screenwriter thought they 120 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: should talk. They smoke real dope. They are out to 121 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: change the entire course of American film. It was the 122 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: hippies turn. Hopper told this to any titan of Golden 123 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: age Hollywood dumb enough to lend an ear. You are 124 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: the old Hollywood, and we're the new. Hopper sent to 125 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: director George Kukor, nearly four decades a senior. And then 126 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: he leaned in real close and dropped his voice to 127 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: a menacing whisper, We are going to bury you. If 128 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: only crusty old George Cocord could see him now. Hopper 129 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: first fell in love with Taus when he brought a 130 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: film crew to town in nineteen sixty eight for Easy Rider. 131 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: It was his directorial debut and was made after a 132 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: nearly decade long stretch where oppera had been blacklisted in Hollywood. 133 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: Hopper's reputation in La La Land throughout the nineteen fifties 134 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: and sixties was that of a bad bad boy who 135 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: was difficult to work with and whose behavior cost him 136 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: countless good roles, Easy Rider gave him some temporary redemption. 137 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: The Road movie followed two bikers, Billy and Wyatt, played 138 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: by Hopper and Peter Fonda, and was largely responsible for 139 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: bringing hippie counterculture to the American mainstream. Made for under 140 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars, it went on to bank upwards 141 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: of forty million domestically and another twenty million abroad. It 142 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: was an honest to god cultural phenomenon, and it made 143 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper. It made him a star. Now just a 144 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: few years later, Hopper was no longer a fringe icon. 145 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: He was just an unwanted long hair, a crazy person, 146 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: a crazy person with a pistol, following their group of 147 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: shit talking kids back to their house. When the kids 148 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: reached their house and we're about to walk inside, Hopper 149 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: made his move. He drew the pistol, cocked it, and 150 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: told him they were under citizens arrest. And when the 151 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: cops arrived, they took Dennis Hopper to jail. Hours later, 152 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: when Hopper met his eight thousand dollars bail, the police 153 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: chief offered some un solicited advice. There's a mob outside. 154 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: He told him best to slip out the side door 155 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: and keep your head down. Once you get outside, we 156 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: can't help you. That was the night Hopper bought as 157 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: many firearms as he could get his hands on. He 158 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: brought them back to the mud Palace. He stood guard 159 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: up on the roof. He stood up for the Fringe. 160 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: It had taken a few years for the Fringe to 161 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: make it to the Hollywood mainstream. There were other movies 162 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: in the late nineteen sixties that began to turn the 163 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: tide from what Hollywood had been to what it would become. 164 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 1: Movies like The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, and Guess Who's 165 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: Coming to Dinner all represented major shifts in how popular 166 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: cinema approached sex, violence and civil rights. Prior to Easy Rider, 167 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: producers Bob Raefelson and Bert Schneider made a first attempt 168 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: at mainstreaming counterculture with Head, a comedy starring The Monkeys. 169 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: They were responsible for The Monkeys TV show, a ready 170 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: for primetime version of the counterculture, but the movie sabotaged 171 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: their squeaky clean image and failed to make waves. The 172 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: Monkeys had conceived of the film with screenwriter and b 173 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: movie actor Jack Nicholson, which means they all sat around 174 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: a hotel suite surrounded by bags of California grasp and 175 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: riffed while a tape recorder spawned. Later, Nicholson took the tapes, 176 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: along with some Nicholson great duiss of LSD and turned 177 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: them into a script. Experimentation with illicit substances only increased. 178 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: On the set of Easy Rider, Nicholson was cast as 179 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: a lawyer who became the gang's third wheel. On and 180 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: off the set, Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson continued to smoke weed, 181 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: continued to do LLC. They were all so eager to 182 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: alter their minds that hobberd didn't even ask what was 183 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: inside of an urn that sat on the mantle of 184 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: one of the production company's offices. He dumped the powdery 185 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: contents onto a boardroom table and snorted them up with 186 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: a wrinkled dollar bill. Fonda broke the news. Hobber didn't 187 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: just snort coke. He snorted the ashes of one of 188 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: the movie executives dead wale on the fringe. Things aren't 189 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: always what they seemed back in tows. They rarely were. 190 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy five, Dennis Hopper continued his role as 191 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: just another long haired hippie haunting the locals. It had 192 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: been years since he had a proper role in a 193 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: proper film, years since any major studio led him near 194 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: a director's chair. So Hopper went off the edge of 195 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: the fringe and went all in on crazy. The locals 196 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: called it the Dennis Hopper Psycho Drama cowboy Act. That 197 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: act played out one night that July after a poker 198 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: match at the Hotel Lafonda. Hopper won the pot that night, 199 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: which happened to be a handful of LSD instead of 200 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: the customary cash. Hopper then popped a few doses on 201 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: his tongue and chased them with some swigs of PBR. 202 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: He put his stetson on top of his head. He 203 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: stood from the table and felt the room wobble. The 204 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: three fifty seven magnum stuffed in his boot made a 205 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: clicking sound when he walked. It sounded like spurs. He 206 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 1: stepped out of the front door of the Lafonda and 207 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: saw it straight ahead. It was on his hind legs, 208 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: a whopping eight fucking feet tall, maybe taller, claws, sharp teeth, snarly. 209 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: It was the biggest bear Hopper had ever seen in 210 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: his life, and he feared it would rush him at 211 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: any moment. Hopper stumbled down the front steps to the hotel. 212 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: He retrieved his three fifty seven from his boot. His 213 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: stetson fell to the ground. He raised his three fifty 214 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: seven into the air, shouted some psychodrama cowboy nonsense into 215 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: the wind, and fired three times. After the final shot 216 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: rang out, Hopper unclenched his teeth and narrowed his eyes 217 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: to take stock at the damage. Had he made contact? 218 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: Was dead? Was it a black bear, a grizzly Once 219 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: the smoke cleared, so did Hopper's mind. He blinked twice, 220 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: and the bear was no longer a bear. It was 221 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: a tree. Hopper tried to outrun the cops, but there 222 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: were too many of them. They hauled Hopper back to 223 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: the county courthouse. As the acid began to slowly wear off, 224 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper realized he was sitting in the same jail 225 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: cell where he had filmed a scene for Easy Rider 226 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: seven years ago. Nobody told Dennis Hopper what to do 227 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: in Dodge City, Kansas. Son his grandparents' egg farm, he 228 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: roamed the wide open landscape. He had the autonomy of 229 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: a kid three times his age. In La Mesa, California, 230 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: where his family moved when he was thirteen. He grew 231 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: to resent his absentee parents. They told him to have 232 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: to become a lawyer or a doctor, but they couldn't 233 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: really tell him what to do. They didn't even know him, 234 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: so he ran away and joined the Shakespearean theater troupe. 235 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: He'd known he was destined for the stage from an 236 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: early age, all the way back to when Dodge City 237 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: premiered in his hometown in nineteen thirty nine and Errol 238 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Flynn strolled down Main Street to the sound of Rapture's applause. 239 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: He was going to be an actor, and not just 240 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: any actor, but the greatest actor in the country, perhaps 241 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: the world. And no one could tell him otherwise, not 242 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: even Harry Cone, president of Columbia Studios and the maker 243 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: and breaker of careers in Hollywood. King Cone was one 244 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: of five studio heads who offered Hopper, then only eighteen 245 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: years old, a major contract after his breakthrough role as 246 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: an epileptic on an episode of NBC's weekly TV drama 247 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: series medic This was nineteen fifty five. The kid's response 248 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: to the sixty three year old Cone was pure Dennis 249 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: Hopper Gold go fuck yourself. Those three words ensured Hopper 250 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't step foot on the Columbia lot for another fifteen years. 251 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Word traveled fast in Hollywood, and the word on the 252 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: street was that this kid Hopper had an oversized ego. 253 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: Define it. He told King Cone to stick his polished, 254 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: glistening Oscar trophies of his goddamn asshole. He was good, 255 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: damn good. Addition, well, the raw visceral performance on that 256 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: episode of Meta was obviously no fluk. Dennis Hopper had something. Still, 257 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: he was too much of a wild card the best 258 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: to cast him in the fringe roles, the supporting roles, 259 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: at least until his attitude adjusted. That was Nicholas Ray's 260 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: thinking that same year in nineteen fifty five, when he 261 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: cast Hopper and Rebel without a Cause, not in the 262 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: lead role, but as a gang member named Goon. The 263 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: role of Jim Stark, of course, went to James Dean. 264 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: To Dennis Hopper, the self proclaimed greatest actor in Hollywood. 265 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: Witnessing James Dean on set was a punch to the guy. 266 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: Who the fuck is this guy? Hopper asked himself, How 267 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: is James Dean better than him? Filming the chicky run 268 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: scene up on the bluff, overlooking the City of Angels, 269 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: Hopper paced from car to car. Dean's transcendent takes played 270 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: over and over in his head. He had to know, 271 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: James Dean had to show him. Hopper lost his temper. 272 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: He flung open the suicide doors of the forty six 273 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: Ford coop. Dean was getting ready to race and threw 274 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: Dean in the back seat, grabbed him by the collar 275 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: of his cherry red jacket. Hopper's eyes went wide screen. 276 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: I was the best actor in Hollywood, man, Hoppery, yelled, 277 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: his grip tightening on Dean's collar. I was the best 278 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: damn actor that you came along, and somehow you're better. Man. 279 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: Dean laughed, and his eyes did that thing where they 280 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: squinted and shut when he found something humorous. But Hopper 281 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: was serious. He wasn't laughing. He better showed me everything 282 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: you know about acting or else, he said. He threw 283 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: in that or else pert to drive home how serious 284 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: he was. James Dean knew he was serious. He told 285 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: Hobbs to play a cool, lay back dig it. Dean 286 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: told Hobbs, when the camera rolls, drink the coffee. Don't 287 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: act like you're drinking the coffee, Dean told Hobbs from 288 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: the camera, Rolls smoked the cigarette. Don't act like you're 289 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: smoking the cigarette. But most importantly, Deane said, play a cool, 290 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: lay back dig it? Can he dig it? Was what 291 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: Marlon Brando did. Dean idolized Brando, but Dean was all 292 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: also a serious student and had honed his chops. At 293 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: the Actor's Studio in New York City, the Actors Studios 294 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: founding artistic director Lee Strausberg developed an energy technique called 295 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: the Method, where actors would use their own real life 296 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: experiences to inform their choices on stage and on screen. 297 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: The results were real, raw performances unlike anything movie going 298 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: audience had ever seen. Secondhand method acting advice wasn't the 299 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: only thing James Dean and Dennis Hopper bonded over. Inside 300 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: Dean's Warner Brothers dressing room, the duo would smoke marijuana 301 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: in secret. They'd put paper bags over their heads when 302 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: they exhaled, so that the suits at Warner Brothers would 303 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: never suspect anything. No smoke, no smell, no foul, no harm. 304 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: Play it cool. Dean and Hopper's experimentation and improvisation didn't 305 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: end there. One afternoon, James Dean had Hopper meet him 306 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: in the kitchen of a guesthouse in the Hollywood Hills 307 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: that he was renting his mission. If he chose to 308 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: accept it, get extra high. Dean told him to come 309 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: on an empty stomach. Greer you were, the higher you'd get. 310 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: James Dean pulled a chunk of payote cactus from the 311 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: pocket of his cherry red jacket. It was dull, green, 312 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: looked like a fat caterpillar in the fetal position. The 313 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: best way to eat this, Dean told Hopps, is raw. 314 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: But this shit tastes so nasty and so bitter that 315 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: most people puked their guts out when they eat it. 316 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: Dean solution was to boil the green, fat cactus on 317 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: the stovetop for about an hour, or until they were 318 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: tired of watching it boil. And Dean took a pair 319 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: of pliers and he yanked out the spines like he 320 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: was deboning a salmon filet. Hops cut the cactus in 321 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: the slices with a steak knife, and then he Hops 322 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: took turns taking hits from a thin marijuana cigarette while 323 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: the payote bounced around a soup pan full of water 324 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: on a rolling boil. When the hour was up, Dean 325 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: strained the sludgy green peote tee through one of his 326 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: old white T shirts into two porcelain mugs. Bottoms up. 327 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: Hobbs felt like he'd stepped into a dream. The walls 328 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: fluttered like they were alive. The floor sparkled like a 329 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: starry night sky. He looked a Dean and it was 330 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: like he was looking in a mirror. No, maybe he's 331 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: no fractions, No supposes hops was there, man, He was there. 332 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: Whether it was grass, payota or half a bottle of 333 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: whiskey that got him there. When he took his girlfriend 334 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: and rebel casifade Natalie Wood up mahalland Drive one night, 335 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: it was pitch black. The only light came from the 336 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: headlights of Hopper's brand new Austin Healey convertible. It was raining. 337 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: Natalie had just told Dennis Hopper that she was also 338 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: having an affair with Rebels director Nicholas Ray. When she 339 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: laid that trip on her, Hopper's foot sank into the 340 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: gas pedal. Natalie was only sixteen, Hopper was two years older, 341 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: but Ray, Nicholas Ray, was forty three, old enough to 342 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: be Natalie's father, and he was sleeping with the films 343 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: under rage and Chanoux. Hopper saw red. They were making 344 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: their way downhill, the convertible swerving and curving on the 345 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: road like a snake trying to eat its own tail. 346 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: Hopper hugged a curve and then pushed his foot as 347 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: far as he could into the gas pedal, and the 348 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: rain on the windshield was abstract art and the car 349 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,719 Speaker 1: loaded into the opposite lane as it rounded another corner. 350 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: Hopper didn't even see the oncoming car as it hit 351 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: the hat on. Natalie was thrown through the windshield and 352 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: wound up on the pavement. And at the hospital, Ray 353 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: burst through the door he wanted Hopper found him pacing 354 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: the lobby and waiting for word from the doctor. Ray 355 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: grabbed Hopper by the collar of his shirt, just like 356 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: Hops had grabbed Dean that night on the bluff, and 357 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: threw him up against the wall cool it. Ray spat 358 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: through his gritted teeth, his eyes watering with fear and anger. 359 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: Hopper sat in the darkness of his Dohemy Drive apartment 360 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: that night, wishing he'd had a chunk of peyote cactus 361 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: to boil in water. He had a Stray thought that 362 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: he would end the love triangle once and for all. 363 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: He'd get a pistol and walk himself right over to 364 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: Nicholas Ray's house, knock on the door, fire one shot 365 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: into Ray's chest when he opened up cool it. He'd 366 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: show him cool man. Nobody told Dennis Hopper what to 367 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: do now. Hobbs thought he'd better not. He could face 368 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: a lot at eighteen, but go to the can for 369 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: premeditated murder was too much. Instead, for his revenge, he'd 370 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: fuck with Ray. On the set of Rebel, while they 371 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: were filming the field trip scene at the Griffith Observatory, 372 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: Hopper took off to go score a hot dog and 373 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: caused a major production delay. When Happer finally returned, Ray 374 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: told him he was fired. But Ray couldn't fire Hopper 375 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: because the kid was under contract untouchable. So Ray did 376 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: the next best thing and took away all of Hopper's lines, 377 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: and no one would hear a word come out of 378 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: Goon Hopper's character's mom for the entire movie. Henry Hathaway 379 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: was the next director who tried to tell Dennis Hopper 380 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: what to do. In nineteen fifty eight on the set 381 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: of From Hell to Texas, Hopper did it his way 382 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 1: for seventy nine takes, multiple days of shooting. Finally, on 383 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: the eightieth take, Hopper broken down and, once again, on 384 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: the fringe of his last nerve did the scene Hathaway's way. 385 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: As Hops left the set in search of his next job, 386 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 1: Hathaway told him to not bother looking. He was going 387 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: to personally see to it that Dennis Hopper would never 388 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: work another goddamn day in Hollywood again. We'll be right 389 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: back after this. 390 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 4: Were were where. 391 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: Brook Hayward recoiled in fear when the first foot came 392 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: down on the windshield. She fumbled the car keys in 393 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: her hands. Another foot stomp on the windshield and the 394 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: glass cracked. Hopper was wearing those big shit kicker boots, 395 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: steel toed, heavy treads. He jumped up and down on 396 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: the yellow hood and rattled the entire car. She reached 397 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: for the floor and got the keys back in her 398 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: hands just in time for Hopper's boot to go right 399 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: through the windshield. Brook screamed as the glass shattered and 400 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: fell into the car's interior. Hopper was on the hood 401 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: panting and why all because Brooke felt like going home 402 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: alone after being subjected to watching her husband Dennis Hopper 403 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: playing Billy the Kid and Michael mcle flers obscene play. 404 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: The Beard ripped the panties off his coat, star and 405 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: go down on her. If Brooke was looking for a sign, 406 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,479 Speaker 1: this was it. It wasn't the first time Hopper had 407 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: gone violent. It was a Jekyll and Hide thing with him. 408 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: Peter Fonda, brother of her best friend Jane Fonda, called 409 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: her once back in nineteen sixty eight to Warner that 410 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: something was up with hops. He was acting strange. He 411 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: may have gone off the rails, and their kids were 412 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: still at home when Hopper walked through the door, his 413 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: wily long hair held at bay by a thin Paisley headband, 414 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: and said to Brook, get me food or I will 415 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: kill you. It wasn't long after that that the lapde 416 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: pulled Hopper over. They told him he threw a roach 417 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: from the window. He begged to differ, and I proved 418 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 1: it by showing him that he still held a roach 419 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: in his hand. While they booked him downtown. Brooks seized 420 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: the opportunity to get a restraining order and start the 421 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: divorce process. Michelle Phillips could relate. The former singer for 422 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: The Mamas and the Papas became Hopper's second wife on 423 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: Halloween night nineteen in a candlelit ceremony in the courtyard 424 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: of the Mud Palace in Taos. Eight days later, Hopper 425 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 1: drove his truck under the tarmac of the Santa Fe 426 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: Airport to physically block her from leaving on a jet plane. 427 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: Their one week of marriage was far from blissful. Hopper 428 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,479 Speaker 1: was paranoid. He was mister Hyde. He shut his guns 429 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: off in the house. He was convinced that Michelle was 430 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: a witch. He handcuffed her so that she couldn't escape. 431 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: As soon as she got Hopper to take the cuffs off, 432 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: Michelle was out the door. At the Santa Fe Airport, 433 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: security soon had Hopper surrounded. They moved him off the runway, 434 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: and then the plane was gone, Michelle along with it. 435 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: He called her that night. I love you, he pleaded, 436 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: I need you. Have you ever thought about suicide? She responded. 437 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: Hopper went back to the Mud Palace and back to 438 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: working on what was quickly becoming his own version of 439 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: Career Suicide. He was piecing together the upteenth edit of 440 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: his new film, the Last Movie, which was his quixotic 441 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: attempt making the film to end all films. The success 442 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: of Easy Rider offered him carte blanche. With his next 443 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: directorial effort, he decided to realize a pet project of his, 444 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: a meta movie about a stuntman who goes into self 445 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: imposed exile in Peru. In his head, he was better 446 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 1: than all women in cassavettas ham peckinpah all put together. 447 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: He was the American Fellini. I'm a genius and I 448 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: can do anything, Hopper shouted at the mountains. He was 449 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: emboldened by whatever combination of payo, to lsd grass and 450 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: cocaine were tooling around the inside of his body. Cocaine, 451 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: in particular, was everywhere in Peru, which is where Hopper 452 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: chose to shoot the Last movie. Kokeead's in La clamored 453 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: for a chance to get a job on the crew, 454 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 1: simply for the chance to peep some of the purest 455 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: shit known to man, which they could then smuggle back 456 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: home to the States and film canisters to make a mint. 457 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: But the reality of a Dennis Hopper film shoot in 458 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: Peru was an entirely different reality and alternate reality. The 459 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: crew had a hall, fifty thousand pounds of camera and 460 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: lighting equipment, three hours up the side of a mountain 461 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: in treacherous conditions. Actors suffering from altitude sickness puked all 462 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: over the beautiful countryside. One of the production members forced 463 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: the stewardess to smoke a joint on the flight into Cusco, 464 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: and the Peruvian cops thought for a hot minute about 465 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: locking up the entire crew and throwing away the key. 466 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: Another production member attempted to take his own life. Hopper 467 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: knew that if the guy had been successful, the movie 468 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: and Hopper would be held responsible by the government. The 469 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: insanity of an unstable, oxygen deprived, cocaine saturated shoot in 470 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: a foreign country drove Dennis Hopper to further paranoias. He 471 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: was convinced that the Peruvian government had the whole set 472 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: under surveillance, that they were in communication with the United 473 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: States government, and let he be arrested the minute they 474 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: stepped off the plane in Los Angeles. When production wrapped 475 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: and they touched down in the States, there were no 476 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 1: Feds waiting for him. There was just Hopper's rampant paranoia. 477 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: Back in Tiles, Hopper spent the better part of a 478 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: year editing the last movie. He screened, cut after cut 479 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: in the town's movie theater for anyone who cared. One 480 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: cut was eight hours long, eight hours long. When it 481 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: was finally released in the fall of nineteen seventy one, 482 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: it was a lean ninety minutes long. It won the 483 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: Critics prize at the Venice Film Festival, and then it 484 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: promptly bombed at the box office. It was too artie 485 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: for the studio, It was delivered too late, was all 486 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: but forgotten. Months later, Dennis Hopper wouldn't direct another movie 487 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: for a decade. Instead, he struggled while his old friend 488 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson made Chinatown and won an oscar for One 489 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Hopper grasped for scraps and 490 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: was occasionally rewarded with small films in countries like Germany 491 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: and Australia. He was so desperate for something new, is 492 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: something that would rekindle that feeling of leading the march 493 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: on the fringe frontier, that he even answered Charles Manson's call. 494 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: Manson was on trial for the Tate LaBianca murders, some 495 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,239 Speaker 1: of the most sad legend nightmarish crimes. Los Angeles had 496 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: ever seen. The aftermath rumbled through the city like a 497 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: late night after shock, and many musicians and artists had 498 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: gotten mixed up with Manson's self proclaimed creative endeavors. But 499 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: that was before the killings, before Manson sent a group 500 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: of blood hungry cronies of Ciello Drive with explicit instructions 501 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: to kill them all. It's worth repeating Dennis Hopper was 502 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: different from Dennis Wilson or Terry Melcher or Jim Morrison, 503 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 1: and that he was the only one crazy enough to 504 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: get involved with Manson. After the murders, Manson wanted to 505 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: make a biopic of his life story. Hopper would direct. 506 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: He could even star in it if you wanted. Hopper 507 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: thought of Terrence Malick's bad Lands. He thought of Don 508 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: Siegel's Dirty Harry Lunard Castle's The Honeymoon Killers. A film 509 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: on Manson could be the defining work in an emerging 510 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 1: genre on American cinema that looked to get into the 511 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: heads of cold blooded killers. Happer took the bait. He 512 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: took the meeting from across the table. Hopper looked into 513 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: Manson's eyes as he spoke. His eyes were everywhere. It 514 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: bounced around like two pinballs. Happer looked beyond the bouncing 515 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: eyeballs to go deeper. Manson rambled on about how he 516 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: was a movie star, He'd always been a movie star, 517 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: only the cameras had never been rolling. He needed Hopper 518 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: to turn the cameras on and start rolling. Happer looked deeper. 519 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: Behind the bouncing eyeballs was blackness. Hopper wanted to find 520 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: a familiar French poet behind those eyes, the sludgy counterculture 521 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: using on the edge of sanity, something that could make 522 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: good commentary, a good story, a good movie, maybe something 523 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: Hopper could relate to. But all he found was blackness, 524 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: so dark and so black that Happer worried if he 525 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: looked any longer, he gets sucked right out of the 526 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: room and never find his way back. He left the 527 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: Manson tail on the table. Hopper was left to contemplate 528 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: a failed career in the mid seventies, a career derailed 529 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: by his own stubbornness, and maybe he'd never worked again. 530 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: He decided to put it out of his mind. He 531 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: took more drugs. By the end of the nineteen seventies, 532 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper's daily intake by his own admission involved a 533 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: case of rum with a fifth of rum on the 534 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: side twenty eight beers in three grams of cocaine. He 535 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: eventually graduated from snorting the coke to shooting it. It 536 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: was honestly a miracle that he ever made it back 537 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: to the director's chair alive in the early eighties, especially 538 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: considering the other chairs he tried on for size, including 539 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: one that had the potential to blow them to Kingdom come. 540 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: The trick of the Russian dynamite death chair act is 541 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: to get the four sticks of dynamite to all explode 542 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: at the same time. That way, the explosion creates a 543 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: vacuum which saves you from bodily harm. You do that, 544 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: and you escape death. You don't do that, and you're fucked. 545 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper had seen the trick performed by a stuntman 546 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: when he was a teenager. For years he thought about 547 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: trying it himself. In May nineteen eighty three, he decided 548 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: to give it a shot. Why the hell not. The 549 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: cocktail of drugs in his system gave him courage, The 550 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: paranoia in his brain gave him purpose. He worried the 551 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: Feds of the Peruvians were still after him, maybe the 552 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: mafia too. Again, Why the hell not? These are the 553 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: things you worry about when you were literally not thinking straight, 554 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: And obviously he was far from thinking straight when he 555 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: sat down in a chair in the middle of the 556 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: Big Age Speedway in North Houston and the house lights 557 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: went down and the spotlight went up on Dennis Hopper. 558 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: The rednecks and film students in the audience had never 559 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: heard of the trick before, and they were there simply 560 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: out of morbid curiosity. The film students were busted over 561 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: from Rice University, where Hopper had just screened his new 562 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: film Out of the Blue. The fuses were lit and 563 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: the spotlight went dim, and all the audience saw was 564 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: the sparkling fuses as they snaked their way to the 565 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: chair's feet. The explosion sent a boom through the speedway. 566 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: Smoke enveloped Hopper in the chair. It was like a 567 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: Houdini act. People in the stands were covering their eyes 568 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: with their hands. Others were screaming and gasping. As the 569 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: smoke cleared, Hopper stood up and walked away from the chair, 570 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: chest puffed out adrenaline. On eleven, not a scratch, Dennis 571 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: Hopper left Houston Feeling invincible, he headed for Mexico and 572 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: the set of the German film Jungle Warriors, a low 573 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: rent exploitation flick. When it came to work, Hops took 574 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: what he could get. Wasn't long into the shoe before 575 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 1: the crew lost sight of him, and Dennis Hopper wandered 576 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: into the jungle in his pajamas in the trees, head 577 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: full of orange sunshine and the White Lady. He thought 578 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: back to another jungle of his recent past, the Philippines, 579 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: where he had the opportunity to work with director Francis 580 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: Ford Coppola, a Titan of New Hollywood. It was on 581 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: the set of Apocalypse Now that he got to do 582 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: scenes with Marlon Brando, the hero of his hero, James Dean. 583 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 1: But Brando had hated James Dean, he thought he was 584 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: a wannabe, and so by proxy Marilyn Brando hated Dennis Hopper. 585 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: He threw bananas at Hopper and the scenes that they 586 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: did together and called him Mutt. Was it method or madness? 587 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit of both. Either way, it's fucking hysterical. 588 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: The jungle in Mexico, though, was definitely madness. The cops 589 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 1: found Hopper walking down a dirt road. He had been 590 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 1: following flashes in the sky. He was receiving transmissions from 591 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: the clouds, and they told him World War three was 592 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: on the brink. Oh, and he had shed his pajamas 593 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: along the way, and Dennis Hopper was buck make the 594 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: insanity reached a fever pitch where Hopper escaped from the 595 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: plane that was bringing him back to the States, still 596 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: higher than James Dean on a half gallon of payot t. 597 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: Hopper thought the plane was on fire and climbed out 598 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: onto the wing through an emergency exit, and there he 599 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 1: stood on the edge of the wing, knees bent slightly 600 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: to help maintain his balance, waving out the people who 601 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: were attempting to coax him back inside, and his shirt 602 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: rippling wildly from the suction of the nearby turbine as 603 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: the plane powered up for takeoff. In this image of 604 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper standing on the wing of a plane in 605 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: Mexico and waiting for World War three to hit his 606 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 1: fucking bonkers even by Dennis Hopper's standards, and it was 607 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 1: his last truly gonzo move back home, he entered rehab 608 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: in Century City to kick his cocaine habit and there 609 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: would be no more naked runs to the jungle or 610 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: a three fifty seven magnum cowboy showdowns with trees that 611 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: looked like bears, no more tantrums on the hoods of 612 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: cars or strange fruit boiled up on a stovetop. However, 613 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,439 Speaker 1: there would still be plenty of strange. Dennis Hopper's third 614 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,839 Speaker 1: act arguably was his best known and most culturally bel 615 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: even more so than his Easy Rider origins. He was 616 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: reborn in a kinder, gentler role, still plenty eccentric, like 617 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: in an uncle who had his cage rattled one too 618 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: many times, but he reserved his flashes of crazy for 619 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: the roles he play. He played the wacko who inhaled 620 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: nitrous oxide in Blue Velvet. He played the town drunk 621 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: in Hoosier's. He played the maniac who rigs a bomb 622 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: on the bus and Speed. He played the leader of 623 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: post apocalyptic pirates in water World. He directed Robert Duval 624 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: and Sean Penn in Colors, and later, toward the end 625 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: of his life, even ended up playing himself in the 626 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 1: protastic television show Entourage. But before that, Dennis Hopper settled 627 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: down in a fringe section of LA's Venice beach called 628 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: the Ghetto, where he bought a funky condo designed by 629 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: architect Frank Geary. Inside video monitors played on constant loop 630 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: footage from the premises. Popper kept a small guns stuffed 631 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: in his sock and a loaded shotgun inside, not because 632 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: he was fending off a hole have pissed off locals, 633 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: but because he still had that edge to him and 634 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: he still stood guard for the fringe. He was there 635 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: in his futuristic Venice compound until May twenty ninth, twenty ten, 636 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: when he died at the age of seventy four from 637 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 1: prostate cancer. From out there in the future, he went 638 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: straight back to a simpler past, buried in a plain 639 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 1: pine box and Taos. And what did they say when 640 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: he died. He was a kind man, he was a 641 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: wise man, he had plans, he had wisdom. Bullshit. They 642 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: said he was king freak, a powder keg, and a liability, 643 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: the most cosmic cowboy hippie and one of the craziest 644 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: fuckers to ever walk a Hollywood back lot. But also 645 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,360 Speaker 1: that he was a visionary and a prophet for a 646 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,240 Speaker 1: new age, and one of the very few who wandered 647 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: off the edge of the fringe and lived to tell 648 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: the tale, a tale so wild that it ought to 649 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: be in pictures. 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