Article: The uneasy ride of Hollywood's Mr Mad; Drink and drugs, failed marriages, bust-ups with movie moguls. Dennis Hopper has been there in spades. So, at 64, he's mellow, right? Wrong.

Byline: ANDREW BILLEN

THE Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, LA, is a mock-baronial hall that overlooks a sward amphitheatre landscaped into a pleasuredrome for California s richest golfers. If ever there has been a fitting venue for an interview with Dennis Hopper, this is not it. Yet here, among the blue rinses in slacks and the fake log fires, Hopper wants to meet me for breakfast, almost as if daring me to write that the easy rider has become the easy putter.

It seems so wrong. At 64, Hopper may no longer be quite the scourge of straight America he once was, but he is still Hollywood s leading madman however many ways you define mad . Back ...

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