May 302010
American actor Dennis Hopper died Saturday at age 74. Seen in classic movies “Easy Rider”, “Apocolypse Now” and “Blue Velvet”, Hopper brought real life and excitement to the roles he played. Always the underdog and sometimes accused of being difficult to work with early in his career, Hopper, a Hollywood outsider helped to establish the counterculture movement. In 1998 “Easy Rider” was included in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
