Dennis Hopper does Rudyard Kipling

Posted on 3 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments

… on the Johnny Cash show. (via Harriet the Blog)

I don’t known what Rudyard would have thought of the little improvisations – I guess they were the young Hopper’s way of laying claim to the poem as his own.

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2 responses to “Dennis Hopper does Rudyard Kipling”

  1. Will's avatar Will | 4 Jun 2010 at 11.29 am | Reply

    This may be the finest moment television has seen.

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  2. Jonathan's avatar shawjonathan | 4 Jun 2010 at 12.34 pm | Reply

    It is pretty amazing, eh! There are a couple of other videos of him reciting the same poem on YouTube. In one he addresses the gender issue in the last line, calling out, “and that’s male and female”. He was still doing it when no longer a brash youth — at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRA0cNICuY&NR=1

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