Tom Green

In the meantime, he is still acting and is a recurring contributor to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. One of the top collectors of Modern American art, Hopper's collection is worth millions of dollars. Tom Green's autobiography, titled Hollywood Causes Cancer (co-written with Allen Rucker), was released on October 12, 2004. According to the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/) Dennis Hopper has an average Bacon number of 2.679 making him third on the list of most suitable centres of the Hollywood universe. This calculation uses a modification of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. Nevertheless, it was cancelled by MTV a few months after it premiered. He recently contributed to the film 1 Giant Leap with provocative anecdotes on spirituality, unity and culture. Marking a change from his earlier work, he was compared in print to a young Johnny Carson or David Letterman. He also co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

In 2003, Green returned with a nightly talk show on MTV called, appropriately, "The New Tom Green Show". He was nominated for an Emmy award for the 1991 HBO films Paris Trout and Doublecrossed (in which he played real life drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal). Their Hollywood house also burned down. He has continued to be an important individual in Hollywood both as an actor, photographer and director. They were divorced on October 15, 2002. In 1988, Hopper directed a critically acclaimed film about Los Angeles gangs called Colors. Green married actress Drew Barrymore on July 7, 2001, but filed for divorce on December 17, 2001, citing irreconcilable differences. Because I am Frank Booth!" (which raised a question for Lynch "That's great for the movie, but how are we gonna have lunch with him?") Hopper won critical acclaim and a slew of awards for this role and the same year won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Hoosiers.

After he was diagnosed with testicular cancer he made a one-hour special of his ordeal, including graphic footage of his own surgery. He also starred in and directed a one-hour special called The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour, where he tormented strangers in Japan. After reading the script, Hopper called Lynch and told him "You have to let me play Frank Booth. MTV cancelled his TV show in 2000, but he continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials. However, it was not until he portrayed the oxygen-huffing, obscenity-screaming Frank Booth in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet (1986) that his career truly revived. Tom's increasing fame made it harder for him to surprise people on the streets, leading him to target mostly seniors and non-English speakers. He gave powerful performances in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983). He quickly called for the video to be retired because "It's not fair to 98 Degrees." Later he revealed (or possibly joked) that MTV had pressured him to do so. In the early 1980s, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program and cured himself of his addictions.

After airing the music video on his show and appealing to his audience to request it, the song became a instant #1 hit on Total Request Live. However, Hopper did act in several films during this period such as Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Tracks (1976), The American Friend (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979) and he won acclaim for directing and acting in Out of the Blue (1980). He also wrote a song called "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)", which he came up with during MTV's Spring Break while doing a show on a cruise ship. Hopper had long been an alcoholic and drug abuser and it was at this point his addiction began to dominate his life. This fame soon netted Tom roles in several Hollywood movies, including Road Trip, Freddy Got Fingered (which he also directed), and Stealing Harvard. Hopper wrote and directed another film that was released in 1971 called The Last Movie that was a box office failure and derailed his career for years. After the show moved to MTV, Tom became famous in the United States. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director of the film for his improvisational methods and stop action photography.

Some of Green's most notable skits include humping a dead moose (referenced by rapper Eminem), having an X-rated lesbian scene painted on his father's car, drinking milk by sucking a cow's udder, and putting a cow head in his parents' bed while they slept. Although Hopper was able to resume acting in mainstream films including The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965) and True Grit (1969), in both of these films he had death scenes with John Wayne, it was not until he teamed with Peter Fonda and made Easy Rider that he really shook up the Hollywood establishment. This film became an anthem of sorts to the lost generation of the Vietnam war and to this day is one of the most successful independent film ever made. A number of them involved Green's parents, who consistently appeared to be unamused and occasionally angered by Tom's antics. He also was very talented as a painter and a poet. His show, The Tom Green Show, typically consisted of stunts played by Tom on unsuspecting people. Hopper also became an accomplished professional photographer (he has had many exhibitions of his work). In the early 1990s, Green had a short-lived career as a rapper in a band called Organized Rhyme. He appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The Defenders, The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel and Combat.

Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Green grew up in Ottawa and had a radio show on the University of Ottawa's campus radio station, CHUO-FM, before getting his first series on local cable TV. Hopper moved to New York and studied at the famous Lee Strasberg acting school. Michael Thomas (Tom) Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian shock comic, actor, singer and author. This infamous incident resulted in him being blacklisted from films for several years. Hopper refused directions for 80 takes over several days. Dean's death in a 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterwards that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell To Texas.

Hopper was then cast in two roles with James Dean (who he admired immensely) Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Hopper made his acting debut on an episode of the Richard Boone television show Medic in 1955 playing a young epileptic. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. Born in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper was voted most likely to succeed by his high school class and it was there he developed an interest in acting.

Dennis Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an American actor and film-maker.