“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper, a man with deep psychological and drug problems, a man of violence, albeit talent, died recently and the media has lamented…way, way too much… the passing of an icon of the Baby-boomer generation…really?
Hooper was born in 1936, ten years before the start of the Baby-boomers and I’m not clear on what influence he or his film had on our generation or any generation for that matter. I mean generally speaking we’re an enlightened group and not a bunch of simple minded lemmings…Easy Rider was…you know…okay…not bad…alright…I’ve seen better…but influential? I don’t know about that.
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