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ROGER SIMON remembers Dennis Hopper. ?Unlike other Hollywood hot shots like Sean Penn, Oliver Stone?

By Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON remembers Dennis Hopper. “Unlike other Hollywood hot shots like Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, etc, who never once changed a single thought they ever had, whether on LSD or a glass of milk, Dennis Hopper was able to see that the very thing that allowed him to live the wild and crazy life he did was deeply obvious. Forget all the self-serving narcissistic left-wing baloney. It was good old fashioned American Freedom! Nowhere else could Dennis have been Dennis ? and he knew it. He wanted that for everybody. . . . And to my Hollywood friends, let this be a reminder that traditionally an artist is not someone who goes with the crowd, especially when that crowd hasn?t revised an idea since the presidential campaign of George McGovern. Open your minds. What?s cool may not be so cool anymore. If Dennis can do it, so can you. He wasn?t afraid of losing his job.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 29, 2010 (boomark / email).