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Everybody thought we were crazy, Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles, Mark Rozzo

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Everybody thought we were crazy

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Mark Rozzo

Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles

Los Angeles in the 1960s: fire on the hills of Bel Air, riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy dicotheque, uproarious openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of Pop Art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple - Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward - lived out the emblematic love story of '60s LA. The home these to glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era's unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm -"furnished like an amusement park," Andy Warhol said - that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with Pop masterpieces by the likes of Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ed Ruscha, and welcomed a who's who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers (many of whom Hopper captured in the lens of his Nikon). In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the creativity, the decdence, the radical politics, and ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew this one-of-a-kind union apart - Easy Rider

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