“I BLAME DENNIS HOPPER”
An afternoon with Illeana Douglas
2:30
Sunday, December 6
Ms. Douglas’ new memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper is available for sale at our concession today, with book signing in our lobby following the event.
“Since it was all out of control, I began to think of my life as a movie.” In her new memoir, I Blame Dennis Hopper (Flatiron Books), actress/producer/director Illeana Douglas (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Ghost World, TV’s Six Feet Under, etc.) writes how her parents were transformed from middle-class squares into hippies after seeing Easy Rider, how she landed her first gig by doing a Liza Minnelli impression, how crooner Rudy Vallée taught her what is was to be a trouper, how her two-time Oscar winning grandfather Melvyn Douglas first brought her onto a film set (Hal Ashby’s Being There), and how Martin Scorsese’s heart melted after hearing her blood-curdling scream… along with stories of how the eponymous Hopper himself gave her a life-saving diagnosis and how she didn’t sleep with Marlon Brando. Today, in an onstage interview punctuated with film clips, Ms. Douglas will be interviewed about her never-dull life and career.