When Dennis Hopper met Brooke Hayward on a Broadway stage in 1961, you wouldn’t have expected the two actors to connect, get married and help shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles in the ’60s.

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For many who lived through the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, it was magical and surreal. Writer Mark Rozzo wanted to explore one intersection of the cultural shifts - how new waves in contemporary ...

Actor Dennis Hopper died yesterday from complications of prostate cancer. He was 74-years-old. Dennis Hopper always looked like he had fun playing villains. That playful twinkle in his eye made those ...

Mark Rozzo talks about his latest book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. It offers a look into the relationship between Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward and their impact on 1960s Los Angeles. For many ...