Paul Giamatti’s turn as the walleyed loner schoolteacher who smells of fish in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has propelled the actor to be squarely in the mix in the Best Actor Oscar race. This has ...

Actor Dennis Hopper died Saturday at the age of 74. We pay tribute with a montage of clips from his past films. Maybe in the end, bad boy Dennis Hopper just couldn't be 75. He died yesterday after a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to continue our series Classic Films and Movie Icons with interviews from our archive with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, two stars of the ...

Dennis Hopper spent much of his adult life figuratively flipping the bird at the Hollywood establishment. Blackballed more than once over the course of his storied career, he became a modern-day ...

In Hollywood, a town that provided a lot of competition for shenanigans, he was one of the foremost cokies, alkies, crazies. At a Houston-area art event in the early 1980s, he nearly blew himself up ...

How about you? GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of ...

The latest addition to Mike Scott’s eclectic catalog features Fiona Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle and more exploring the life of the actor and director. By David Peisner Books about Viola ...

Like everyone else, I first met Dennis Hopper through his work. He was one of the world’s all-time cool guys, and I think by the time he starred in those groundbreaking films of the ’60s, like Easy ...