Aku menyentuh balik hal post itu kerana aku baru sahaja mendapat tahu (melalui Twitter) yang pelakon yang telah membawa watak 'Billy' di dalam wayang tersebut, Dennis Hopper, telah meninggal dunia, akibat kanser.
Berikut, adalah petikan dari satu artikel dari The New YorkTimes oleh Manohla Dargis, yang aku rasa, cukup padat dan tepat mengenai pelakon ikonik ini.
Dennis Hopper — actor, filmmaker, photographer, art collector, world-class burnout, first-rate survivor — never blew it. Unlike the villains and freaks he has played over the decades — the psycho with the mommy complex in “Blue Velvet,” the mad bomber with the grudge in “Speed” — he has made it through the good, the bad and some spectacularly terrible times. He rode out the golden age of Hollywood by roaring into a new movie era with “Easy Rider.” He hung out with James Dean, played Elizabeth Taylor’s son, acted for Quentin Tarantino. He has been rich and infamous, lost and found, the next big thing, the last man standing. - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, 7 April 2010.
Goodbye, Billy.You take it easy now.
