Dennis Hopper and the Natural Progression From Hippie to Conservative

California may have spent the last five years under the rule of a Republican movie star, but news that major industry players are anything but super-lefty liberals still seems to strike many as a surprise. Responding to a story in which it’s casually mentioned that Dennis Hopper is expected to attend the Republican National Convention, Defamer’s Kyle Buchanan writes, “Did we miss the memo that said the countercultural director of freaking Easy Rider was a Republican? We’d assumed his appearance in the right-wing Zucker film An American Carol was a strict paycheck gig…” I’m not sure when the “memo” first went out, but Hopper has been a registered Republican for over 25 years. This 2005 interview is the most concise story that I could find on Hopper’s “conversion” from, as he puts it, being “probably as Left as you could get... [read full story]