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So never mind that BP's "top kill" failed . . .

As an aside, Hopper has been wasting away with cancer awhile now.  Having lost a loved one under similar circumstances, I'm sure his friends and family are relieved that his suffering is finally over. 

I imagine, though, that they wish at this moment that he had not been a celebrity, that his death (like Gary Coleman's or Michael Jackson's) wasn't a form of infotainment for the masses, that they could be left alone with each other and their grief.

In the meantime, people who have accomplished far more in their lives then any entertainer ever could die of similar circumstances every day with no fanfare.  On the one hand, it's sad that they don't get the credit or recognition they deserve while they're alive.  On the other, it's good to know that media jackals won't feed off their corpses for a buck.

[RadioMan]

LOL...who pissed in your wheaties? 

Hopper's death isn't just some infotainment pablum for the masses.  He was, in his time, a symbol for cultural change in America.  He happened to become famous just as the 60s were morphing into the 70s...Free love was dead, but drugs were still the thing to do.  He was a great actor. He was also - drunk or sober- nuts. RIP.

[[BDS] Mahones]

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LOL...who pissed in your wheaties? 

Hopper's death isn't just some infotainment pablum for the masses.  He was, in his time, a symbol for cultural change in America.  He happened to become famous just as the 60s were morphing into the 70s...Free love was dead, but drugs were still the thing to do.  He was a great actor. He was also - drunk or sober- nuts. RIP.

My issues with starfucking media and the masses that eat up the shit they spew has nothing to do with Hopper per se (or piss in wheaties, neither of which I consume).

But since you want to talk about the man's merits as a human being . . . Hopper always said he was a great actor, but he really wasn't (he thought James Dean was an even better actor, LOL!).  The only roles that Hopper was believable in were roles in which he played a creep, and even then he overacted.  He was not a symbol of anything other than narcissim.  But that's not his fault.  That's the fault of the narcissists who made him a symbol. 

RIP to the man.  The symbol never was.

[RadioMan]

You're missing the point...He was a narcissist, but he was an indelible part of American culture...Easy Rider being a touchstone for many people of that generation.  What you or I think about him is irrelevant...and he was everything you said he was. 

[[BDS]-Ole Man Rivers]

He was a good artist though. By which I mean the man had a good eye for pictures he took, some he made in to paintings. I also liked most of his Movies, I like the crazy type in Movies.   RIP Mr Hopper.

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You're missing the point...He was a narcissist, but he was an indelible part of American culture...Easy Rider being a touchstone for many people of that generation.  What you or I think about him is irrelevant...and he was everything you said he was. 

I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the post, but I disagree entirely.  Nothing he has done is indelible. 

Look, I've been spending months reading books (on Google Books and elsewhere) that date back to the 1700s.  Trust me, we've forgotten not only "indelible" entertainers, but also "foundational" institutional and cultural anchors.  Even the Supreme Court has no clue about the origins of the law that it pretends to master. 

I have no beef with Dennis Hopper.  While he milked the attention that he was able to get, he didn't ask for the attention in the first place.  My issue is with us pretending that we have a claim on the man, that we know what he stood for when we didn't know him.  I guarantee you that the media have been telling a story that his family and friends know is wrong, regardless of whether it is too positive or too negative.   Hopper's family and friends deserve to be left alone with their memories of who the guy actually was and what he actually stood for.  We have to stop caring about famous people and start caring about our neighbors.