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Show Pa.-- THE DAILY HERALD. Prevo, Utah. Thursday. Jsnuaiy 15. A4 roles the way many actors would if they could. They're meaty roles and he could devour them with relish. "My tradition comes out of Shakespeare," he said. "I was doing Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego from age 13 to 18. What are the great Shakespeare parts? You look at your lead characters in Shakespeare, almost all of them are psychotic. So those are the parts you try to get when you're a Shakespearean ed toward the SUNDANCE ; Continued from Al table sot in "Hoosiers" or the shock from the forgettable "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2." Or maybe it was his extremely strange turn with the czar of bizarre, David ' Lynch, in "Blue Velvet." But the thing is, you remember Hopper. The knowing grin Throughout the 86 movies in which he's acted and the seven he's directed and all the "Twilight Zones" and "Wagon Trains" and his more than 140 TV roles, Dennis Hopper is that guy you don't want to see coming. He's that guy with the eye. Looking just slightly the one man you'd hate to see at the end of an alley or smoking a cigarette in your easy chair as you walked in the door. r, That possessed, knowing wide his face, the creasing grin maniacal cackle, that whispering through those lips like some demonic black sheep. No, these are not things calculated to settle well on your mind or stop your heart from flipping like a bad horizontal hold on an ancient TV set. "Ma-a-a-a-- The Price All of which brings an ironic smile to Hopper, who showed up at the press conference looking like the Easy Commuter, friendly blue eyes flashing beneath a brown tweed flat cap, wearing a dark jacket over a navy blue shirt and dark blue jeans. "I had no intention of ending up playing heavies," said Hopper. gut the master of the macabre knew otherwise. "Vincent Price told me, Toil know, you're gonna make a great heavy.' And I thought, 'How wrong can a guy be? You know; I'm gonna be a movie star.' Anyway, thank you, Mr. Price." Hopper just sort of gravitat IRAQ Continued from Al Aziz asserted that the head of the U.N. Special Commission, Australian Richard Butler, has ignored Iraq's pleas for a more balanced makeup of inspection teams. The deputy prime minister said nothing has changed since last fall's crisis, when Iraq ordered American inspectors out of the country on the grounds they were spies. "This should be corrected, and this is the duty of the exec W8 loose-scre- w "In my view, his work is absolutely top hole." That's partly how Hopper came to Sundance this time. He was in Utah last summer, making a Disney movie, "Here Come the Deedles," which is due for release in March. He walked into the art bungalow at Sundance, looking for something he might buy. Haworth recognized Hopper. They renewed their friendship. "She said, 'I'd love to show these (photographs) up here if I could arrange it. Here I am." actor." The guy with the whiff of danger and one foot in the looney bin wasn't far off the real Hopper at times, but he has evolved into man with a reservoir of tranquility beneath the heaving seething. "For a long time when I was drinking and doing drugs, I didn't know whether I was the guy from 'Easy Rider' or 'Apocalypse Now'" said Hopper. "It was like, when people met me, I thought they'd be disappointed if they didn't sfe the guy they expected. Drinking and drugs were the crazy way to be that way. "But I've been sober now for 14 years." An old friend Jann Haworth can see both Dennises in the hopper in his photography. Haworth is the at artist-in-residen- "Get tight, paint loose" Hopper got here by way of Dodge City, Kan., where he was bom, then from Kansas City where he first began honing his talents as a painter at the Nelson-Atkin- s Museum of Art, under the sometimes-watchfeye of the legendary midwest-emuralist Thomas Hart Benton. "I had been doing these little Rocky Mountain watercolors, which I'd learned in Dodge City," said Hopper. "I had the little stream and the rock and the tree and the mountain and it was really cool and I had it down to a formula. "Benton comes by my little desk and says, 'Oh, kid. You're not going to understand this now. But someday you're gonna have to get tight and paint ul m loose.' " of other art. Haworth has known Hopper since they both showed their work at Robert Fraser's renowned London gallery in 1965. died." "Dennis' work is very risky, somewhat scary, but at the same time very peaceful," said Haworth. "He takes shards or quilts of society, such as walls, and refuses to throw them away. Some people find such graffiti hideous and upsetting, but Dennis gives them a quietness and simple Hopper took to shooting all artists: Warhol, pop Oldenberg, Johns. He was on the Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery and took dozens of Martin of photographs Luther King. "I thought the photographs were going to be important at one time, as a historical thing," he said. "I wasn't just doing graffiti-scar- red beauty. utive chairman (Butler)," Azi2 said. "He should not take sides with the Americans and British against Iraq. He should be neutral." Aziz said he will discuss that issue with Butler when the U.N. official comes to Iraq this week. U.N. inspectors must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before punishing U.N. trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can be lifted. Iraq has said that thousands "I the of people, especially children and the elderly, have died as a result of shortages of food and medicine. "The game is to keep "Romance" role But having The Eye to see has been Hopper's forte from early on. "Easy Rider" was the first independent movie distrib- uted. "Hoosiers" was another indy score. " 'Hoosiers' first showed here," said Hopper. "So I'm a great fan of the Sundance festival." And which role does he remember most vividly as his favorite? That would be his scene with Walken in "True Romance." Hopper is a broken-dowand libbut erated security guard, Walken an enforcer for mobster Blue Lou, tracking some narcotics swiped by Christian Slater, Hopper's son. Hopper protecting his son's whereabouts in the face of the menacing Walken is two dynamite actors with short fuses, e playing in a roomful of dialogue. "I love that scene," said Hopper. "Chris and I were out doing publicity and they said, Tou know, you guys are great actors,' and Chris said, 'Hey, I don't know whether we're great actors, but I came out of dancing. And Hopper and I really partner well together.' n Lesson taken to heart. became an abstract impressionist as a painter," said Hopper. "I really think of these photographs as paintings more than photographs. I started shooting probably out of some inferiority complex that I needed to leave something after I Sundance, who won a Grammy for her cover of The Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" album and is widely acclaimed for a variety snapshots of my friends." the Aziz sanctions forever," charged. unanimous Wednesday's Security Council statement was sought by the United States as a show of support for Butler. Council diplomats said even Iraq's friends on the council Russia, France and China were growing frustrated by Baghdad's continued refusal to cooperate fully with U.N. free-spirite- d roman-candl- Final revelation latest venture, As for his "The tackle will Hopper Monkey Wrench Gang," from a novel of the same name by Hopper's friend, Edward Abbey. It's about environmental anarand stars Woody chists Harrelson. Shooting starts in August. "I guess if there's anything I'm involved in right now, it would be the environment," Hopper said. "I'm very conscious about what's happening to our Mother Earth." Now: Are you ready for this? a I'm that, "Beyond Republican." Now for many that may be as unsettling a snapshot of the Easy Rider as any in his irst lady rides 5t h round of queries The Associated Press j FAST MONEY Cf) Home Loans For: $ Continued from Al employees, including the mayor and her husband, also are accused of improperly receiving health insurance through the town. Some of the defendants are accused of such things as fixing speeding tickets and harassing a pool hall operator and trying to run him out of town by posting fliers about his criminal record. Also, the former city recorder is charged with stealing about $3,000 in taxpayer money. Charges include official misconduct, which carries up to six years in prison. The defendants were all released on bail and went back to work, though the vice mayor, Ned Sparks, resigned on Monday. No trial date has been set. "In my opinion, this is not over with yet by a long shot. This is just the start. The playhouse is coming down," said Alderman Robert Thomas, an s opponent of Ms. of and one only three members of the town's governing board who have not been indicted. He said that Ms. who was first elected in 1992 and changed the city charter to give herself more power, is now "absolutely a queen. She Kimsey-McGee'- five-perso- n Kimsey-McGe- e, is a dictator." He said the reason he ran and got elected is that towns consolidated power and did things behind closed doors. 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NussbasJm denies making the statement to the FBI, Republicans suggested that getting the background files some on high ranking Reagan and Bush administration offi; was done to compile an cials enemies' list. The White House says it was nothing more than a bureaucratic blunder. Livingstone has said he knew nothing about the gathering of the FBI files by subordiMarceca. nate Anthony in aide an However, she office said Livingstone's told him that Marceca was gathering files on former White House aides. Mrs. Clinton appeared before federal a grand jury in January 1996 to testify about the still unexplained inside the White House of billing records outlining her work for the failed Arkansas savings and loan at the center of the Whitewater investigation. 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