-Titulo Original : Everybody Thought We Were Crazy Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, And 1960s Los Angeles
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-Descripcion Original:
A landmark and long-overdue cultural history.-VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward-a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” -Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple-Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward-lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era’s unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm-“furnished like an amusement park,” Andy Warhol said-that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a who’s who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apart-Easy Rider.Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a fascinating account of the Hopper and Hayward union and a deeply researched, panoramic cultural history. It’s the intimate saga of one couple whose own rise and fall-from youthful creative flowering to disorder and chaos-mirrors the very shape of the decade. Review Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a biography of a wildly creative and inventive couple and a landmark and long-overdue cultural history of a scene that made a city. . . . [Rozzos book] is that rare thing: A thrilling read that brings us inside a scandalously under-reported time and place. - VogueEverybody Thought We Were Crazy serves as a portrait not only of a marriage but of a critical American artistic awakening. . . . Rozzo paints a neon picture of [Hayward and Hoppers] milieu. . . . a life and time in Technicolor. - Vanity FairWonderful. . . . [A] rollicking tale. . . . By centering his book on the juxtaposition of opposing worlds-of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward; of an America seemingly poised to run on flower power and an America that can’t quite manage a civil Thanksgiving meal-Rozzo makes each world, each character and each reality both shocking and believable, both ridiculous and sublime. - Washington PostThe glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A. . . . Mark Rozzo brings the lost scene to life in Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. - Los Angeles TimesArmed with Hayward’s never-before-published memoirs and scores of in-depth interviews, Rozzo paints a fascinating if dark portrait not just of Hopper and Hayward but the culture they helped reshape. - Milwaukee Journal SentinelRozzo has done an excellent job of bringing back the excitement of pop art, rock & roll and a California decade that was fueled by drink and drugs. Everybody Thought We were Crazy is a salute to those years. - Denver PostMark Rozzos deeply researched, beautifully written, and endlessly fascinating exploration of the couple and the time they spend together is an incredible portrait of a singular time and two people who helped define it. - Town & Country“A scintillating romance plays out against the febrile backdrop of 1960s L.A. in [this] luminous debut. . . . [Rozzo] delivers a captivating drama of clashing egos and artistic struggles that captures the oft-volatile vicissitudes of love.” - Publishers W
-Fabricante :
Ecco
-Descripcion Original:
A landmark and long-overdue cultural history.-VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward-a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” -Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple-Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward-lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the era’s unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realm-“furnished like an amusement park,” Andy Warhol said-that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a who’s who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apart-Easy Rider.Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a fascinating account of the Hopper and Hayward union and a deeply researched, panoramic cultural history. It’s the intimate saga of one couple whose own rise and fall-from youthful creative flowering to disorder and chaos-mirrors the very shape of the decade. Review Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a biography of a wildly creative and inventive couple and a landmark and long-overdue cultural history of a scene that made a city. . . . [Rozzos book] is that rare thing: A thrilling read that brings us inside a scandalously under-reported time and place. - VogueEverybody Thought We Were Crazy serves as a portrait not only of a marriage but of a critical American artistic awakening. . . . Rozzo paints a neon picture of [Hayward and Hoppers] milieu. . . . a life and time in Technicolor. - Vanity FairWonderful. . . . [A] rollicking tale. . . . By centering his book on the juxtaposition of opposing worlds-of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward; of an America seemingly poised to run on flower power and an America that can’t quite manage a civil Thanksgiving meal-Rozzo makes each world, each character and each reality both shocking and believable, both ridiculous and sublime. - Washington PostThe glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A. . . . Mark Rozzo brings the lost scene to life in Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. - Los Angeles TimesArmed with Hayward’s never-before-published memoirs and scores of in-depth interviews, Rozzo paints a fascinating if dark portrait not just of Hopper and Hayward but the culture they helped reshape. - Milwaukee Journal SentinelRozzo has done an excellent job of bringing back the excitement of pop art, rock & roll and a California decade that was fueled by drink and drugs. Everybody Thought We were Crazy is a salute to those years. - Denver PostMark Rozzos deeply researched, beautifully written, and endlessly fascinating exploration of the couple and the time they spend together is an incredible portrait of a singular time and two people who helped define it. - Town & Country“A scintillating romance plays out against the febrile backdrop of 1960s L.A. in [this] luminous debut. . . . [Rozzo] delivers a captivating drama of clashing egos and artistic struggles that captures the oft-volatile vicissitudes of love.” - Publishers W




