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Backstabbing douche and was-a-liberal-until-9/11 Roger Simon eulogizes Dennis Hopper:
So when you think of Dennis on that iconic bike in Easy Rider, think of America at its best, out on the open road, optimistic and heading straight on with unflinching belief in liberty.
…until a southern redneck with a shotgun comes along and wants to teach the hippie a lesson.
Now it is entirely possible that Roger Simon dozed off before the end of Easy Rider (as is his custom with movies he didn’t write) and he may very well have been in the lobby buying Jujubes when George said, “This used to be a hell of a good country. I can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it” so, just to be safe and avoid any long awkward pauses in conversations with Roger about movies, I would suggest no one bring up Ole Yeller. Or Scenes From A Mall… but for other reasons.
That way lies sadness…
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That’s my America all all right. It’s a land where the investment bankers can roam wild and free. It’s wide-open land of opportunity where any starry-eyed kid can hit town with a few million in his pocket and make something of himself.
Darned if I’m not getting a bit teary-eyed just thinking about it.
Scenes from a Mall annoys me, because there’s no reason it shouldn’t have worked. Woody Allen in front of the camera, Paul Mazursky behind it, and hell, even Bette Midler’s more than capable of being funny. And yet it mostly fluctuates between dull, irritating and mildly amusing, and then it stops, and the only reason I can think of is Roger L. Simon. If that fucking mime wasn’t his idea I’ll eat Woody’s ponytail.
“Get a haircut, freak!”
Next up: Simon reminisces about the badass Hendrix songs in Mary Poppins…
You have to be a douchebag from the get-go to become a neocon. Using 9/11 as the reason or excuse should be a punishable offense.
And you just know that Roger would have written as glowingly even if Hopper hadn’t become a wingnut. But I really like his hilarious attempt to write hip, which he seems to think is long on rootless metaphor, short on coherence:
“..hot-and-cold running petri dishes strapped to their arms like phylacteries?” Cripes. Just like Simon is one of those guys who sport a “trademark” head covering (fedora, bandana, exotic skullcap, etc.) from the Hat Club for Men which only serve to scream “BALD GUY!”, writing like this is the antithesis of cool.
While the words themselves scream “TOM WOLFE WANNABE!”
I wonder why Simon neglects to mention that Hopper voted for Obama in 2008?
I guess that doesn’t fit his fucking narrative.
Waitwaitwait–does Simon think that petri dishes are used for drug detection, or is he somehow under the impression that Leary’s social circles had graduated from mere chemicals to altered states of consciousness via microbes? That’s some whacked-out Grant Morrison shit right there, or would be if it had come from a marginally-more-competent writer.
Every time I read something about this loonbag Roger “I Sold Out to PJM” Simon, I wonder what the fuck is wrong with this guy. If it’s not in a psycho mode of hating liberals or a Democrat (the one attacking the Gores as parents – do not get me started), he’s freaking out like a drug addled old fart about movies.
Optimistic ? Who remembers it that way and who would care considering the story of the movie?
What in the fuck is wrong with that guy? Although, it’s perfect for the dunce. He thinks being a sell out asshole like a liberal-hating turd is rebellion…that’s the ticket. And if RW goons kill you…oh, wait….he loves right-wingers. He hates “Dirty Hippies Who Don’t Love Rush and Instaputz”.
What’s his lesson here? He knows much less than Hopper, who is deceased. Jesus.
A “crowd” may have Sean Penn and it can also have crybaby, insane-sounding lunatics like Michael Moriarty, Jon Voight and Victoria Jackson.
And too many his goonballs commenters think conservatives made America great? Hippies were conservatives? Liberals shot Hopper’s character to death? Damn, they are confused. Not all were that bad but too many have no clue.
I’m very sad about Dennis Hopper’s death. I’d be sad no matter what his politics had been toward the end. He was all over the place as an actor sometimes but I loved him when he did well. And he did a number of characters many will remember forever . I loved him even when he did commercials, selling Ameriprise Financial ways and Nike. Was that good in reality? I don’t know but I love the ads. But Jesus, he wasn’t selling conservatism as a God send. These people are idiots.
Oh..yeah…I wonder if those Pajamas Media quarter wits still miss him?
About voting for Obama:
“I’ve been a Republican since Reagan, and I stayed a long time, but Palin finally sent me over the other side.”
RIP, Dennis Hopper. He was a rebel, all right. In a way that leaves them looking like the shooters. The people who don’t how what happened to their own mess…God help them.
The neocons have done to America what the locals did to Ned Beatty in “Deliverance.” (Psst: But don’t tell Roger about that scene either — he’s got a “Deliverance” weekend planned with Kristol and Douthat over the Fourth of July…)