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Adam Dean to Hopper: "I observed what you performed today. Today you were great." Jack Nicholson to Hopper: "We're geniuses, you understand that? Isn't it great to be a genius?" 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 With out a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of Adam Dean who longed to be another Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. An enigmatic man from Dodge City, Kansas, on an endless quest to understand the American Aspiration. Dennis Hopper has been referred to as a rebel, an icon, an addict suffering from demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Good friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, coach to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T, Dennis Hopper built a career that was a half-century of rebellion waged at the border of American popular culture. Tom Folsom's Hopper is a untamed drive through Dennis's many lives. Boasting a huge selection of interviews with Hopper's fellow celebrities, artists, music artists, and residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he put in a lot of his most manic time), as well as his ex-wives and a great many other people who realized him, Hopper goes on a fantastic - and sometimes troubling - voyage. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty plantation in Kansas, where he viewed trains go by on the way to LA, to his formative time in Hollywood as one of a shiny new crop of celebrities straddling the border of the studio room system, to the rebellious 1960s and the start of the self-employed film movement, to the drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time - Tom Folsom has built a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.
