Bush-supporter Dennis Hopper switches his vote: "I pray" Obama wins

[RiverStone]

One of Hollywood's few Republicans has switched his vote. Dennis Hopper, 72, told reporters in France that he's praying for an Obama victory, despite decades as a Bush supporter.

"I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work.

"I was the first person in my family to have been Republican," he added. "For most of my life I wasn't on the left."

"I pray God, Barack Obama is elected," he said, calling the current administration's many "lies."

Hopper stars in "An American Carol," a conservative comedy that spoofed Michael Moore and last donated money, in 2004, the RNC.

French Culture minister Christine Albanel also named Dennis Hopper as Commander of the 'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' medal on Monday night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-supporter-dennis-hop_n_134433.html

Dennis with Peter and Jack in Easy Rider - 1969


pitching Ameriprise commericals - 2008

[Demit]

1. i still can't get my head around the fact that he was ever a Republican.

[Happyhippychick]

5. I'm shocked! I thought he was a cool old hippy. YUCK!

[nolabels]

2. Is " Easy Rider" the only classic he had a significant role in?

Like what up with that anyway?

Dennis Hopper - Filmography - MSN Movies:
http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-filmography/dennis-hopper/?startingItem=1&ipp=15

[LeftinOH]

3. Significant role, yes.. but he was a cast member in Rebel Without a Cause,

Giant (both with James Dean), and Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman. And who can forget his role as a gas-sniffing sadist in Blue Velvet?

[VWolf]

4. Blue Velvet

I'd have to say his role in Blue Velvet was ... significant

[bunnies]

6. How could anyone who was in a movie as fucked up and twisted as Blue Velvet...

EVER be a republican? ugh. My head hurts.

[mitchum]

7. Hopper has always been a no talent buffoon who exploited his "close friendship...

with Jimmy Dean" for decades

[Overseas]

8. Ring a ding ding. Idiot has a moment of clarity. BFD. ///

[Hieronymus]

9. Amazing .. welcome on board. Lots of switch overs this time around.