Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash.

He also had a supporting role in Dennis Hopper's controversial film Out of the Blue ( 1980 ) and spoofed his Perry Mason image in Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 ).

A number of other actors had turned down the role after Hopper's departure.

Following Hopper's death in 2009, the band announced that it would continue with Babbington once again stepping into the role formerly held by Hopper.

* Blue Velvet ( 1986 ): a supporting role as Paul, a friend of Dennis Hopper's villain character.

** Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host ( the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite ).

Most of Hopper's figure paintings focus on the subtle interaction of human beings with their environment — carried out with solo figures, couples, or groups.

Much meaning can be added to a painting by its title, but the titles of Hopper's paintings were sometimes chosen by others, or were selected by Hopper and his wife in a way that makes it unclear whether they have any real connection with the artist's meaning.

Once seen, Hopper's interpretations exist in our consciousness in tandem with our own experience.

For the first time ever, this show presented Hopper's oil paintings together with preparatory studies for those works.

The three were subsequently featured on a " wanted " poster issued by Sheriff Hopper and the local Texas Rangers ( displayed at Hopper's office ), and threatened with arrest should they return to Loving County.

Reviewed in major publications, Dahl was considered a writer-of-note and his appearances in Hollywood to follow up with the film project were met with notices in Hedda Hopper's columns.

His paintings such as Sunset Streets ( 1985 ) and Flatland River ( 1997 ) are noted for their hyper realism, and are in some ways similar to Edward Hopper's work, who was fascinated with mundane scenes from everyday American life.

" Adams was Dennis Hopper's roommate during this period and the three reportedly socialized together, with Presley "... hanging out more and more with Nick and his friends " and glad his manager " liked Nick.

" In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Mr. Hopper's direction is tough and stylish, in effective contrast with the sunny look of Ueli Steiger's cinematography.

" USA Today gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " In other words, Hopper's direction isn't any great shakes, and the wrap-up is somewhat confusing, but this film does make you want to go skinny-dipping with someone else's mate.

He served on the committee which amalgamated the design for his COMTRAN language with Grace Hopper's FLOW-MATIC and thus produced the specifications for COBOL.

( Hopper's inclusion in the group he forswore is ironic: his depictions of city streets are almost entirely free of the usual minutiae, with not a single incidental ashcan in sight.

Recently these two matches have been copied with matches between Hopper's and Cook's ( Edgar Road derby ) and College and Toye's ( Kingsgate Street derby ) also being played.

completely, with the price of Franz Hopper's very life to give the multi-agent system enough energy and power to do so.

Also, a double bill featuring the world premiere of A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck, with music by Jeanine Tesori set to Tony Kushner's libretto ( a story inspired by the life of Eugene O ' Neill ) along with Later the Same Evening, ( a one-act opera based on characters in five of Edward Hopper's paintings ) with a score by John Musto from a libretto by Mark Campbell.

The three were subsequently featured on a " wanted " poster issued by Sheriff Hopper and the local Texas Rangers ( displayed at Hopper's office ), and threatened with arrest should they return to Loving County.

For example, " Into the Night " begins with the whispered words " Now it's dark ", a line which was repeatedly spoken by Frank Booth, Dennis Hopper's character, in Blue Velvet.

In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release.

His father had a mild nature, and the household was dominated by women: Hopper's mother, grandmother, sister, and maid.

Hopper's first existing oil painting to hint at his famous interiors was Solitary Figure in a Theater ( c. 1904 ).

Hopper's most systematic declaration of his philosophy as an artist was given in a handwritten note, titled " Statement ", submitted in 1953 to the journal, Reality:

Girlie Show was inspired by Hopper's visit to a burlesque show a few days earlier.

Hopper's painting New York Movie was featured in the television show Dead Like Me ; the girl standing in the corner resembles Daisy Adair.

In 1993, Madonna was inspired sufficiently by Hopper's 1941 painting Girlie Show that she named her world tour after it and incorporated many of the theatrical elements and mood of the painting into the show.

Polish composer Paweł Szymański's Compartment 2, Car 7 for violin, viola, cello and vibraphone ( 2003 ) was inspired by Hopper's Compartment C, Car 193.

Hopper's painting Early Sunday Morning was the inspiration for the sleeve of British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1985 album Crush.

This was the beginning of Hopper's popularity in Europe and his large worldwide reputation.

Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of Hopper's proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, including extensive use of the " flash-forward " narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene.

The result was 1971's The Last Movie, which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's career as a director for well over a decade.

It was unveiled in March 2010, shortly before Hopper's death.

Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks was used as a background in one of the film's sequences.

In the spring of 1971, Clark was commissioned by Dennis Hopper to contribute the tracks " American Dreamer " and " Outlaw Song " to Hopper's film project American Dreamer.

Houston's vocal was on a cover version of Hugh Hopper's " Memories ", which also featured a lead break by saxophonist Archie Shepp.

Hopper's debut motion picture appearance was as a baby in his father's 1916 silent movie, Sunshine Dad.

" Bird Song " was essentially Ray Price's " You Done Me Wrong " with altered lyrics and was prominently featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider.