I Blame Dennis Hopper
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
1. I Blame Dennis Hopper
2. They Came from Within: Love and Romance at the Drive-In
3. Camelot
4. In the Key of Liza
5. Chance Encounters
6. Me Doing Dreyfuss Doing Tracy
7. Screaming for Marty
8. What’s It Like to Work with Robert De Niro?
9. Happy Just to Be Alive
10. Uncle Roddy
11. A Director To Die For
12. A Woman’s Picture
13. You’re a Tuning Fork
14. The Roulette Wheel of Insanity
15. Easy to Assemble
Epilogue
Photographic Section
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The details of certain situations and locations have been changed, as have the names of some individuals, to protect their privacy. All photos in this book except those listed below with specific credit lines are courtesy of the author’s personal collection. Any failure to credit the appropriate photographer is unintentional.
Photograph, chapter eight opener: Illeana Douglas with Robert De Niro © Phillip V. Caruso
Photographic Section: Illeana Douglas with Liza Minnelli: 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night © Getty Images, Jordan Strauss; Illeana Douglas on the set of Search and Destroy © NBCUniversal; Illeana Douglas on the set of Picture Perfect © 20th Century Fox
I BLAME DENNIS HOPPER. Copyright © 2015 by Illeana Douglas. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Henry Sene Yee
Cover photographs courtesy of Illeana Douglas and Joanne Savio
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition of this book as follows:
Douglas, Illeana.
I blame Dennis Hopper: and other stories from a life lived in and out of the movies / Illeana Douglas.—First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-05291-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-250-05387-9 (e-book)
1. Douglas, Illeana, 1965– 2. Douglas, Illeana, 1965—Anecdotes. 3. Actresses—United States—Biography. 4. Actresses—United States—Anecdotes. I. Title.
PN2287.D5245A6 2015
792.02'8092—dc23
[B]
2015022208
e-ISBN 978125053879
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First Edition: November 2015