In Hollywood, a town that provided a lot of competition for shenanigans, he was one of the foremost cokies, alkies, crazies. At a Houston-area art event in the early 1980s, he nearly blew himself up ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The customized Captain America chopper Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider" has come to symbolize the counterculture of the 1960s. Now it's for sale. The auction house Profiles in History ...

In May of 1969, the mayor of Taos, N.M., Rumaldo Garcia announced that his town's annual summer "fiesta" would be canceled that year, "due to the widespread publicity Taos has received regarding the ...

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.

Dennis Hopper wasn't from New Orleans. But he should have been. The Oscar-nominated actor, who died Saturday of complications from prostate cancer, was for much of his early career a walking, talking ...

Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in “Rebel Without a Cause,” an improbable smash with “Easy Rider” and a classic character ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Following are some key facts about "Easy Rider," the groundbreaking 1969 biker film directed by Dennis Hopper, who died at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday from ...