Dennis Hopper was hospitalized in New York on Wednesday.
Feren told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the 73-year-old Oscar nominee had been suffering from...
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If you thought his characters in Blue Velvet and Speed were off their rockers, wait until you get a look at Dennis Hopper's unbelievably insane character, music mogul Ben Cendars, in Starz new original series Crash. Actually, in the opening scene alone Ben is having a full-fledged conversation with his penis! TVGuide.com caught up with the movie icon to get his take on how this character's kind of crazy compared to ones past, as well as one surprising talent he has that earned him international acclaim.
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Seems every movie channel wants its own Mad Men–style prestige project. Which could explain why pay-cable upstart Starz has raided the Oscar vault to turn the 2006 best-picture winner, Crash, into an ambitious, if not immediately convincing, weekly series.
With all new characters, so this isn't exactly a sequel, TV's Crash resembles the movie in being less about car wrecks than about disparate cultures colliding within the ethnic melting pot of Los Angeles. Still, there is one fateful smashup in the opening hour, and pivotal moments often occur on wheels — in a limo, an ambulance, a patrol car.
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It’s one of the more intriguing ideas for the fall season: turning the Oscar-winning movie Crash into a weekly series, which the pay-cable movie network Starz hopes will put them on the map the way Mad Men did for AMC a year ago. (It’s scheduled to premiere Oct. 17.) But don’t go in expecting a sequel. The characters are all new, although as in the movie, they’ll reflect the racial and class tensions of Los Angeles as their lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes random ways.“I didn’t feel the need to go back to that movie and say, OK, what happens on the next day,” says executive producer Glen Mazzara (The Shield), who was hired to reinvent the movie into a series. “I knew instinctually what that movie felt like. … So it really comes out of the emotion that I felt when I watched that film. It really was just a feel of that film I was going for.”A brief clip reel was all that Starz was able to show critics, but the producers (inc...
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Dennis Hopper has joined the cast of Crash, the upcoming Starz series based on the Oscar-winning film. Hopper will play Ben, a music producer who's been around the block a few times and is waiting for his Next Big Thing. Hopper joins an ensemble that includes Clare Carey (Jericho), Ross McCall (CSI: NY) and Jocko Sims (CSI).While there are no direct character overlaps with the film, the 13-eppy drama — the first original series for Starz — will explore the same theme of "social tolerance" and examine the notion of the American dream through each character's journey. Will the addition of Dennis make the show an easier ride for you? Or does the small-screen adaptation sound like it'll crash on arrival? — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to see some of Dennis Hopper's many on-screen moments.
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