HOPPER: I went on that picture - when I went on that picture, I saw James Dean, for the first time, act. And at that point all I was concerned about was being an actor. I wasn't concerned about, like, ...

The story follows Jim Stark (played by James Dean) after his arrival in a new town. It isn't long before Jim starts to stir up trouble when he falls for Judy (Natalie Wood), a local girl. That in ...

Waterboys leader Mike Scott said in a statement: The arc of [Hopper’s] life was the story of our times. He was at the big bang of youth culture in Rebel Without A Cause with James Dean; and the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a ...

The Waterboys were one of the biggest bands of the 80s but almost four decades on from their commercial heyday, leader Mike Scott remains a thrilling creative livewire. Over the past few years, the ...

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.