With a raft of weird roles to his credit, Dennis Hopper might well yawn about playing another wacko. Yet Hopper is totally tickled by his outrageous new alter ego, freaky Los Angeles music producer Ben Cendars in the Starz series "Crash." By KINNEY LITTLEFIELD For The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — With a raft of weird roles to his credit, Dennis Hopper might well yawn about playing another wacko. Yet Hopper is totally tickled by his outrageous new alter ego, freaky Los Angeles music producer Ben Cendars in the Starz series "Crash." "He's unbelievable," says Hopper, chuckling about Ben's raunchy first scene in the edgy drama. The gentle-voiced actor - who defined cinematic bizarre in "Blue Velvet" - gets top billing in the ensemble program, spawned by the Academy Award-winning film about racial tensions in Los Angeles....
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