Rambling Home Memories Of Dennis Hopper Media
Rambling Home Memories Of Dennis Hopper Media
Early Seventies, will not bore the unknowing with which 'Daddy's Car" I borrowed for the night drive into THE CITY.
Just that the large displacement V8 was a 1960'S CHRYSLER product, and THE CITY was Washington D.C.
The 1960's influence mobilizing that evening was a Vietnam War protest for the Capital area, but we weren't a part of that.
Merely rural high school kids passing through, perhaps throwing off the head count of Washington Post and FBI statisticians ...
On the way to a University to see a special traveling show of a Dennis Hopper documentary.
Perhaps the same one that can be seen now on You-tube.
No content worthy of immediate memory, just a long string of stuff, as chaotic and eventually boring as any other undisciplined , unfocused, ... home movie.
Art film? Not to me. An embarrassing level of shirt tail out, bare foot intimacy , the stalwart, stereotypical .... home movie, (gee you just missing the exciting part want me to rewind .... ).
No one hurt. Still had respect after it was over.
And my date and I had something to laugh about before that night's adventure blossomed.
Got back to the station, way too late, had to drive around the mass of undisciplined , focused, protesters.
Home late! Scandal enough for that Consolidated High School. We two were now a "couple", that only the years would slowly pull apart.
Oh, and our pal,
Dennis Hopper.
Dennis Hopper was an actor you remembered, and were always glad to see working in the media industries through the decades.
How glad?
"Water World" was not a Kevin Costner movie for me, but another vehicle for Dennis Hopper to ride on to glory.
""Get your motors running, head out on the highway ... looking for adventure, or ... like a true nature's child, we were born, born to be wild...""
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