“..As he fights prostate cancer, a vicious battle is already being waged for the millions the actor earned from films such as Easy Rider.
Then again, says Guy Adams, this is a hellraiser who was never likely to go quietly
Cut down by a 12-bore shotgun, Dennis Hopper was instantly turned from jobbing actor into a household name ..
.. when his Harley Davidson chopper motorcycle exploded in a slow-motion ball of flames during the extravagant final scene of his 1969 film Easy Rider.
The famous road movie, in which he played a coke-smuggling, dope smoking, hippie biker called Billy, swiftly became a modern classic ..
.. placing Hopper and his co-stars Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson firmly at the centre of the so-called “counter-culture” movement.
It also kick-started his career as the most revered hellraiser of his generation: ..
.. a man who claimed to consume half a gallon of rum, 28 beers, and three grammes of cocaine a day ..
.. and had a habit of getting arrested for wandering naked through the streets of Los Angeles..”
go to source/story>>Hopper’s dramatic Hollywood ending – Features, Films – The Independent
