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After Easy Rider Dennis Hopper is given a lot of money to go to Peru and make a movie. Why? Because it’s cheaper to film there? No, because the drugs are cheaper – plus, you can see their impact on the screen. Hopper’s barely coherent lark is a movie about making a movie.
This article appears in June 4 • 2004.
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