{"id":3577,"date":"2010-05-29T23:06:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2010\/05\/dennis-hopper1936-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-05-29T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T23:06:30","slug":"dennis-hopper1936-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2010\/05\/dennis-hopper1936-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Hopper: 1936-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"14370\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"450px-Dennis_Hopper_hat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/450px-Dennis_Hopper_hat.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/form>\n<p>One of the great icons of the 60s, actor<a href=\"http:\/\/movie-critics.ew.com\/2010\/05\/29\/dennis-hopper-a-visionary-bad-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Dennis Hopper, died today<\/a> after a long bout with prostate cancer. It is the second celebrity death this week, days after Gary Coleman&#8217;s passing. Hopper has always been a controversial  figure on and off the screen, and I could certainly write a lengthy commentary on how I think Hopper and his peers have represented the best but also the very worst of what their generation supposedly symbolized from a moral and spiritual perspective.But on the eve of his death, I would rather spend time focusing on the positive, inspiring aspects of Hopper&#8217;s contribution to pop culture so I offer as a reflection two video clips. One is from one of my favorite movies, &#8220;Hoosiers&#8221;, and definitely Hopper&#8217;s best performance as Shooter, the alcoholic dad given a second chance on and off the court.The other clip is of an old performance of a poem Hopper recited often in public, &#8220;If&#8221; by Rudyard Kipling. 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