Certain actors are described as chameleons, doing everything they can to disappear as fully into a role as possible. They dive into accents, costumes, makeup to attempt to become one with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Dennis Hopper was Frank, the PBR-swilling heavy in Blue Velvet, even before he embarked on Easy Rider, a project that defined an entire generation, he was a prolific photographer. In fact, he ...

In 1985, a skinny, chain-smoking film director with a rakish pompadour and a Boy Scout’s cordial manner arrived in the swampy southeast corner of North Carolina, ready to make a movie that would set ...

When the news dropped Thursday that Oscar-nominated film director David Lynch had died at the age of 78, one very predictable thing was unleashed on social media: Memories of Lynch's time in ...

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 ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.