Dennis Hopper praying for Obama victory

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Dennis_Hopper_praying_for_Obama_vic_10132008.html

Dennis Hopper, the US actor-director perhaps best known for the 1969 road-movie "Easy Rider", is praying for victory by Barack Obama in next month's elections, he said on Monday.

"I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work at the Paris cinematheque.

Hopper is to be handed France's order of Commander of Arts and Letters by the culture minister later Monday.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I do remember him being a Bush supporter...So this is a surprise.

[LSparkle]

4. Isn't he also in "An American Carol"???

Better late than never, though ... if he's now seen
the light.

[d_b]

2. now if we could only get

james woods and dennis miller...

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Miller is a lost cause. n/t

[d_b]

5. how about ted nugent then?

[Cheap_Trick]

10. NO!

The rethugs can have that child molesting sorry sack of shit.

[PatSeg]

12. Oh no!!!

Maybe we can send him to Wassilla. He could run for mayor!

[d_b]

17. lulz

[Hugabear]

6. It would be easier to accept this if he hadn't appeared in that neocon lovefest movie

Forget the name of it, but the recent one with Kelsey Grammar, Jon Voight, and a few other Hollywood rethugs. Basically it looks like they went around Hollywood and nabbed every conservative they could find, and cast them in this movie.

[d_b]

7. An American Shitfest

[BrklynLiberal]

13. "An American Carol". The biggest flop of the century...

[KamaAina]

18. Second biggest, actually

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804492

but note: it took Paris Hilton to outflop Repukeapalooza!

[ShortnFiery]

8. I'm dating myself, but I can't get over my first impression of Dennis Hopper ...

*playing* the role of an acid-brain hippie photo-journalist in the 1979 flick "Apocalapse Now."

Everything about him (to me) is filtered through by THAT character which, IMO, was NOT A STRETCH, i.e., note his recent "investment" commercials. :evilgrin:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JXrP8yv8o&feature=related

[msallied]

16. I don't think you're dating yourself. :)

I'm about to turn 29 and I love that movie. lol

[msallied]

9. Well I'm glad he's seen the light.

I do have to say, though, that Easy Rider is one of the coolest movies ever. What is it with some of these Bush supporters making cool movies? Eastwood and Hopper. Jeezus.

[ShortnFiery]

11. I'm not all that quick to claim Dennis Hopper ... Two Words: Blue Velvet.

That movie was way too WACK for even my dark tastes. :crazy:

[msallied]

15. VERY good point. lol

I remember my parents renting that when I was a kid and my dad saying "Under NO uncertain terms will you watch this movie." So when I was about fourteen, I finally got to see it and I wished I'd listened to my dad. lol

And like you, my tastes run a little to the dark side. That movie and Deliverance disturbed me to the core.

[ShortnFiery]

19. It was just vile ... quite morally depraved ...perhaps the or one of the most ...

BUT then my buddy took me to see "The Devil's Rejects" a couple of years ago. :wow: :crazy: My friend and I have fun searching out for the world's WORST movie. IMO Blue Velvet should be on most people's short list. ;)

[juno jones]

23. Gees...

And I just found it boring...:)

[La Coliniere]

24. Disturbing? Well yes,

but an awful movie? Many folks, including me, consider BV to be one of the best films of the 80s. Movies that provoke strong emotions aren't for everyone, that's for sure. In the history of film, BV is a masterpiece of surrealist cinema. Dennis Hopper was unforgettable as the singularly twisted Frank Booth.
I was surprised when I learned a few years ago that both Hopper and David Lynch had contributed to the GOP. Then I remembered some of the "artists" I knew back in college. Some of the most creative people can also have right-wing views as I recall.

[RagAss]

28. $$$$$$

[PBS Poll-435]

14. Get ready for more "Guilt by Association" tactics by the media.

This man blew up two buses and an elevator!

[SurfingAtWork]

20. And farted in a crowded elevator!

[Billy Burnett]

21. Dennis Hopper is dumber than a box of hammers.

I've done some sound engineering work that brought me into contact w/him a few years ago. IMO he's fried his brains with booze and pills, so I'm surprised to read this.

[mitchum]

22. Too little, too late, you no talent dirtbag

[No Elephants]

25. If he voted for Bushes four times, he needs to be praying for forgiveness, too.

[crankychatter]

26. he's been schilling for banks/investment firms ( I forget which ones )

seen his happy ass in a field of wheat... trying to get into gramma's pocket book... capitalizing on his sixties creds...

ex hippy spokesmodel for big money

I HOPE HE LOST HIS ASS

and btw Dennis, thanks for the endorsement

but you're something like a convict that found jeezus in jail

too little too late Bubba

[PBS Poll-435]

27. The American Express Company, Aka Ameriprise

Thanks, but not thanks, AE.