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The final days of Dennis Hopper

By Emma Clarkson If you wanted to understand Dennis Hopper late in his life, after five decades of fighting the system, firing up revolutions and invoking dark nightmares onscreen, all you had to do was look at his home in Venice, California. That it looked like no other home — a weird warehouse set among [...]

July 26, 2010 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Canada’s Gone Up in Smoke

By Bill Adams – Cheech and Chong have got some pretty blunt advice for Prime Minister Stephen Harper when it comes to Canada’s marijuana’s laws. “Wise up, you douchebag,” Cheech Marin says with some glee when asked what he’d tell the prime minister. Chong, who hails from Edmonton, nods in agreement. The team of tokers [...]

July 19, 2010 Arts & Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized 1 Comment

David Gilmour to play mystery date with Waters

By Neil Harriggan – Former Pink Floyd member David Gilmour will make a surprise appearance during former bandmate Roger Waters’s upcoming 30th anniversary tour for The Wall, announced Waters via his Facebook page on July 14. Marking a reconciliation after years of feuding, the two will perform together at an as-yet-unknown gig during the 2010-11 [...]

July 19, 2010 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Golly, Beav, We’re Historic

By Neil Genzlinger – TELEVISION was still relatively young when, on Oct. 4, 1957, CBS broadcast the perfect sitcom scene: A second grader known as the Beaver and his older brother, Wally, ordered by their mother to take baths before going to bed, are kneeling beside a tub they have just filled. Already in their [...]

June 27, 2010 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Dennis Hopper, Hollywood Rebel, Dies at 74

By Edward Wyatt – Dennis Hopper, whose portrayals of drug-addled, often deranged misfits in the landmark films “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Blue Velvet” drew on his early out-of-control experiences as part of a new generation of Hollywood rebel, died Saturday (May 29, 2010) at his home in Venice, Calif. He was 74. The cause [...]

May 29, 2010 Arts & Entertainment, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Time

(http://magazinesandbox NULL.saltandpeppermedianews NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Time-Photo1 NULL.jpg) By David Ryan – August, 1987 “Pink Floyd to reunite with a new album and tour.” We were just kids when those magic words swam from stereo speakers and car radios around the world. The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall; those albums were [...]

May 11, 2010 Arts & Entertainment 0 Comments