"All the songs I wrote that were successful were written when I was in a contented state of mind," said Orbison of his more ...

He was one of Hollywood’s last great rebels, a maverick actor, director and screenwriter whose searing portrayals of characters such as drug dealer Frank Booth in Blue Velvet and an unnamed and ...

It doesn’t all work: Freakout At The Mud Palace sounds like a 1980s Euro house DJ trying to rock out, and Frank (Let’s Fuck) has Scott, casting himself in Hopper’s Blue Velvet role as the psychopathic ...

Which is how he has come to dedicate an entire double album to the cinematic wild card described by David Lynch (who cast him in Blue Velvet as the wicked Frank Booth) as a “rebel dream guy ...

Rock and roll experimentalist operation The Waterboys—brainchild of Scottish multi-instrumentalist and sole consistent member Mike Scott—have outdone themselves with the beautifully bizarre Life, ...

Although Kyle MacLachlan is the male lead in David Lynch ’s Blue Velvet, Hopper’s portrayal of Frank Booth, a violent drug dealer with a split personality, is truly unforgettable.

Scott’s lyrics covered Hopper’s early work alongside James Dean, the success of Easy Rider, the years lost to addiction before his comeback, in 1986, as the unforgettable Frank Booth in David ...

Although Kyle MacLachlan is the male lead in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Hopper’s portrayal of Frank Booth, a violent drug dealer with a split personality, is truly unforgettable.

Behind the scenes photos from making Jenny Pen Courtesy of Paul Lewis “It comes down to Frank Booth, Dennis Hopper, and ‘Blue Velvet,’” said Ashcroft of his inspirations.

The late film critic Roger Ebert was far from Lynch’s biggest champion, often lambasting the filmmaker for what he considered misogyny (he particularly hated “Blue Velvet”, claiming that Lynch had ...

Chaos erupts. What follows is a sustained 12-minute scene of unhinged psychosexual depravity. This scene is even more disturbing when the twisted drug dealer Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) arrives.