His Speak Easily costar, Hedda Hopper, died the same day.

Hopper died in his studio near Washington Square in New York City on May 15, 1967.

* May 2-Hedda Hopper, columnist ( died 1966 )

* December 9-Grace Hopper ( died 1992 ), American computer scientist.

When she died in 1912, her studio was taken by Edward Hopper.

Lead actor Dennis Hopper died in May 2010 and the series did not continue.

*" Casey at the Bat " Web site with biographical details on Thayer, Hopper, Mike " King " Kelly and chronology of the poem's publication.

After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

* Algar, N., " Hopper at Birmingham ," in Sight and Sound ( London ), Summer 1982

" The U. S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper ( DDG-70 ) is named for her, as was the Cray XE6 " Hopper " supercomputer at NERSC.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Pierrot continued to appear in the art of the Modernists — or at least of the long-lived among them: Chagall, Ernst, Goleminov, Hopper, Miró, Picasso — as well as in the work of their younger followers, such as Gerard Dillon, Indrek Hirv, and Roger Redgate.

Hopper was a good student in grade school and showed talent in drawing at age five.

It comes slowly .” His fellow illustrator Walter Tittle described Hopper ’ s depressed emotional state in sharper terms, seeing his friend “ suffering … from long periods of unconquerable inertia, sitting for days at a time before his easel in helpless unhappiness, unable to raise a hand to break the spell .” In 1912, Hopper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, to seek some inspiration and did his first outdoor paintings in America.

In 1913, at the famous Armory Show, Hopper sold his first painting, Sailing ( 1911 ), which he painted over an earlier self-portrait.

When he could, Hopper did some outdoor watercolors on visits to New England, especially at the art colonies at Ogunquit, Maine, and Monhegan Island.

In 1918, Hopper was awarded the U. S. Shipping Board Prize for his war poster, “ Smash the Hun ,” and he was able to exhibit on three occasions: in 1917 with the Society of Independent Artists, in January 1920 ( a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club, which was the precursor to the Whitney Museum ), and in 1922 ( again with the Whitney Studio Club ).

With Nivison ’ s help, six of Hopper ’ s Gloucester watercolors were admitted to an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum in 1923.

Observe what can be done with the homeliest subject .” Hopper sold all his watercolors at a one-man show the following year and finally decided to put illustration behind him.

In the early 1920s, Hopper painted his first such pictures Girl at Sewing Machine ( 1921 ), New York Interior ( another woman sewing ) ( 1921 ), and Moonlight Interior ( a nude getting into bed ) ( 1923 ).

In Office at Night ( 1940 ), another “ couple ” painting, Hopper creates a psychological puzzle.

In 1980, the groundbreaking show Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art and visited London, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, as well as San Francisco and Chicago.

In 2007, an exhibition focused on the period of Hopper ’ s greatest achievements — from about 1925 to mid-century — and was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the " rednecks " he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South.

Hopper received the First Film Award ( Prix de la première œuvre ) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

Hopper did produce a commissioned “ portrait ” of a house, The MacArthurs ’ Home ( 1939 ), where he faithfully details the Victorian architecture of the home of actress Helen Hayes.

One of the Hopper farmhouses, built in 1752 for John Hopper the younger, stood near 53rd Street and 11th Avenue ; christened " Rosevale " for its extensive gardens, it was the home of the War of 1812 veteran, Gen. Garrit Hopper Striker, and lasted until 1896, when it was demolished ; the site was purchased for the city and naturalistically landscaped by Samuel Parsons Jr. as DeWitt Clinton Park.

Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review remarking that " the energy and style of the movie are exhilarating ", and that " the supporting cast is superb, a roll call of actors at home in these violent waters: Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper and Brad Pitt, for example.

Hopper was hospitalized on February 14, 1970, after a stroke at his home in Yucca Valley, California, and was transferred to a hospital in Palm Springs when pneumonia developed.

Hopper ) call Bucksnort home, and professional wrestler " Dirty " Dutch Mantel often was billed as being from the town.

The latter has a ball, and as Hopper takes the bat in hand and Bell acts as catcher the former goes through the customary contortion act in pitching, and as Hopper hits the ball he runs off the stage, as if running the bases, and presently returns chased by De Angelis, who passes the ball to Bell as catcher just as Hopper makes a big slide for home base.

In her Los Angeles Times gossip column on March 1, 1946, Hedda Hopper wrote, " King Baggot, who used to be one of our top directors, is working as an extra in The Show-Off.

In late 1996, Mulvaney left the group, citing problems of distance — Hopper and Morris had relocated permanently to Los Angeles — as well as a desire to focus on his family.

There had also been pressure against Foreman by, among others, Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures ( Kramer's brand new boss at the time ), John Wayne of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals ( who said he would " never reget having helped run Foreman out of this country " and called High Noon " un-American ") and Hedda Hopper of the Los Angeles Times.

Dennis Hopper ordered changes, so Michael Schiffer was hired and the setting was changed to Los Angeles and the focus of the story became more about the world of gang members.

* Joseph Hopper Nicholson, U. S. Congressman for Maryland's 7th congressional district, 1799-1806 and judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, 1806-1817.

Many athletics events for the district take place in Freeport at Hopper Field.

Many athletics events for the district take place at Hopper Field in Freeport.

First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

Incidentally, the first public performance of the poem was on August 14, 1888, by actor De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday.

The New York Times ' obituary of Thayer on August 22, 1940, p. 19 quotes comedian DeWolf Hopper, who helped make the poem famous:

Many of those who signed on, including John Hurt, Burt Lancaster and Dennis Hopper, did so for less than their usual salaries for a chance to work with the legendary director.

Wenders ' book, Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written while a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatised by Neil Cargill.

** 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 ).

Hopper was born in upper Nyack, New York, a yacht-building center on the Hudson River north of New York City.

Early on, Hopper modeled his style after Chase and French masters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

Being a free-lancer, Hopper was forced to solicit for projects, and had to knock on the doors of magazine and agency offices to find business.

His Two on the Aisle ( 1927 ) sold for a personal record $ 1, 500, enabling Hopper to purchase an automobile, which he used to make field trips to remote areas of New England.

Always reluctant to discuss himself and his art, Hopper simply summed up his art by stating, “ The whole answer is there on the canvas .” Hopper was stoic and fatalistic — a quiet introverted man with a gentle sense of humor and a frank manner.

Though critics and viewers interpret meaning and mood in these cityscapes, Hopper insisted “ I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism .” As if to prove the point, his late painting Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ) is a pure study of sunlight.

Hopper went on to make several “ office ” pictures, but none with a sensual undercurrent.

Hopper approaches Surrealism with Rooms by the Sea ( 1951 ), where an open door gives on to the ocean, without an apparent ladder or steps.