High Times: That’s one thing— Hopper: Because that’s monopoly—if I understand capitalism at all. For the August, 1983 issue of High Times, Mike Wilmington interviewed the late, great Dennis Hopper, who would have been 84 years old on May 17. High Times: You don’t know whether it had appeal, because it didn’t reach enough people. It’s not “A film by Dennis Hopper”— but it’s got to be starring Dennis Hopper. And when he leaves, he’s out there marching on the land, and he knows there’s fuckin’ oil… It’s incredible!
For the August, 1983 issue of High Times, Mike Wilmington interviewed the late, great Dennis Hopper, who would have been 84 years old on May 17.
The years since 1969 have been no easy ride for Dennis Hopper. The onetime hang-tough buddy of the late James Dean, the outlaw-chopper-hippie-coke-score icon of the late ’60s (gunning his Harley through a haze of acid rock), suddenly found himself branded the avatar of cinematic bad-assery in the early ’70s, when the front office refused to give his next movie (The Last Movie—almost a fitting title) a decent release, later chopping...
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