How Dennis Hopper In ‘Blue Velvet’ & ‘Apocalypse Now’ Inspired Career Of Oscar-Nominated ‘The Holdovers’ Paul Giamatti: The Film That Lit My Fuse. By Mike Fleming Jr.

GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero.

He cast Dennis Hopper as a gas-huffing, ... headlines across the state screamed in outrage over David Lynch and “Blue Velvet,” the movie he filmed mostly in Wilmington but partially in its ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

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Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...

Some have attributed the successfully mysterious vibe of "Blue Velvet" to the fact that a three-hour movie had to be cut by one-third. (Many of the cut scenes can be seen in the film's DVD releases.) ...