Dennis Hopper
December, 1969
After 15 Years in the entertainment underground, Dennis Hopper, a onetime Hollywood Wunderkind, has finally surfaced, at 33, as director, co-author and co-star of Easy Rider, a painfully honest account of blind intolerance faced by long-haired motorcyclists in rural America. A Dodge City, Kansas, product who migrated to the West Coast in his teens, Hopper made himself persona non grata at Columbia by talking back to supermogul Harry Cohn; at Warner Bros., he made two films with James Dean, who e...
