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Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - JSA - 06-01-2010 10:17 AM
Did anyone attend this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92lUI8zykM
(Click to expand the article beneath the clip.)
In an interview with David Letterman, he said he had wanted to do this after seeing Captain Dynamite. He asked Rice for permission to use the stadium, but they turned him down. I didn't know he had actually gone through with it.
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - WoodlandsOwl - 06-06-2010 10:26 AM
OK, what was he wasted on?
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - gsloth - 06-06-2010 10:24 PM
Might the better question be, what wasn't he on?
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - JSA - 06-07-2010 07:14 AM
According to his obituary, it was shortly after this that he went into rehab.
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - MrMxyzptlk - 02-09-2019 01:24 PM
explosion video now on YouTube
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - georgewebb - 02-09-2019 01:37 PM
(02-09-2019 01:24 PM)MrMxyzptlk Wrote: explosion video now on YouTube
How did you find this thread from 9 years ago?
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - MrMxyzptlk - 02-09-2019 02:24 PM
(02-09-2019 01:37 PM)georgewebb Wrote:(02-09-2019 01:24 PM)MrMxyzptlk Wrote: explosion video now on YouTube
How did you find this thread from 9 years ago?
search term "Dennis Hopper"
He also describes the incident in an extra on Last Picture Show DVD extras titled Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair
RE: Dennis Hopper, the Media Center, and the Death Chair - tanqtonic - 02-09-2019 03:46 PM
Hopper actually came to Brian Huberman's 'Western Film Genre' class and talked to the class the day immediately preceding the Texas Race Course stunt, Huberman screened 'Easy Rider' for that class, and Hopper had a long 'director's cut' session for the class. Immediately after he took a Q&A session from the class. During that session he announced what he was going to do and invited the class out to witness everything. Apparently everything about 'Easy Rider' was off-the-cuff with only a rough outline put forward by Peter Fonda on what would happen. Pretty much most of the movie was based off ideas for a filming day based on the drug and booze get togethers from the night before.
I wasnt in the class, but had some very good friends who not only were in the class session and also motorvated to the Raceway to see the stunt.
I took the class the next year, and Huberman throughout the semester kept talking about that class session and how he was the person who filmed the next day's stunt.