The summer of celebrity deaths may soon become the autumn of celebrity deaths. The first victim? Dennis Hopper.Entertainment Tonight says the Blue Velvet and Easy Rider star, who is now 73, was rushed to the hospital in New York today with "flu-like symptoms." Reports say Hopper arrived with an oxygen mask. That was only feeding him oxygen. Not the stuff he was inhaling in Blue Velvet. Which everyone knows was not oxygen.
Candy-colored clown they call the sandman!
A friend of Hopper's said of him, "The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say 'hello' to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, 'Do you know that "if" is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you'... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas..."
Oh by the way he's not dead yet.
