According to a report from the National Enquirer the Easy Rider himself, Dennis Hopper, is on the verge of death by way of prostate cancer. The 73 year-old Hollywood icon was diagnosed with the disease last September and it has since metastasized to his bones. The Enquirer is reporting that Hopper is telling friends and family that he doesn't have much time left.

Hopper apparently entered into an experimental treatment program at the University of Southern California Medical Center. But eventually, as his condition deteriorated, the actor was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles sometime before Christmas.


"Dennis has come to grips with the fact that the end is likely near," a close source told The ENQUIRER.

Source: nationalenquirer.com

Hopper managed to complete production on the second season of Crash, the television show based on the Oscar Award-winning film.

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I heard about that. I wish him no pain whatsoever. :(

I feel sorry for people like Dennis and Patrick Swayze, They get diagnosed with a horrible disease and idiot tabloids like the National Encrapper have them at death's door and their only interest is to sell more gossip. They don't care about the victim and are doing nothing more than trying to be the first to usher them out.

The word from Hollywood is that the great Dennis Hopper may be losing his battle with prostate cancer.

Hopper, 74, is truly one of our finest actors and has been for nigh on 50 years. He’s also a late bloomer.

After working hard for about fifteen years, he finally hit it big in 1969 with “Easy Rider.” The seminal counterculture film was written with Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern (who passed away a few years ago).

Hopper could have parlayed “Easy Rider” into a major career, but instead he dropped out. He didn’t really resurface until “Apocalypse Now” in 1978, when he made a splash. But again, Hopper semi-vanished. It wouldn’t be again until 1986, and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” that he finally hit his stride and had a role with a lasting impression. He was already 50. In that year, 1986, Hopper also made “Hoosiers” and “River’s Edge.” It was his high water mark, and he wouldn’t do so well again until “Speed” in 1994. Still through all of, post-”Apocalypse,” he never stopped working in one way or another.

Hopper, who boasts a huge art collection, was also married five times. His first wife was the beauty Brooke Hayward, daughter of Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward. Hopper’s second marriage, to Michelle Phillips, lasted a week in the fall of 1970. Three more marriages followed. He has two Oscar nominations — one for acting (”Hoosiers”) and for writing (”Easy Rider”). Looking back, it’s a scandal that he wasn’t nominated for “Blue Velvet,” too.

Here’s to you, Dennis!

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