12 June 2010 - It happened almost unnoticed, but a few weeks actor, director, artist and rebel Dennis Hopper died in the United States. Hopper started his remarkable life as a 15-years old drug addict, and later became one of the most prominent ant-Vietnam-war activists. There is also a story that at a certain moment he was found naked and hallucinating in a street in small town Mexico trying to raise funds & recruit men for an army to fight the third world war. Most of all, Hopper became known as a great art collector, although he lost most of his collection in various nasty divorces. He paid only USD 75 for the first Campbell's Soup painting by Andy Warhol. Although it is still a high price to pay for a silly painting of a tin of soup, its probably one of the best investments ever.
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