National Bestseller A landmark and long-overdue cultural history. -Vogue The stylish wild
story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward-a tale of love art Hollywood and
heartbreak Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and
awful of my life. -Brooke Hayward Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset
Strip wild weekends in Malibu late nights at The Daisy discotheque openings at the Ferus
Gallery and the convergence of pop art rock and roll and the New Hollywood. At the center of
it all one inspired improbable and highly combustible couple-Dennis Hopper and Brooke
Hayward-lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young
actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the
Hollywood Hills became the era's unofficial living room a kaleidoscopic realm-furnished like
an amusement park Andy Warhol said-that made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it.
Hopper and Hayward vanguard collectors of contemporary art packed the place with pop
masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein Ed Ruscha and Warhol and welcomed a who's who
of visitors from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns Joan Didion to Tina Turner Hells Angels to Black
Panthers. In this house everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun the decadence
the radical politics and ultimately the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the
project that made his career became the cinematic symbol of the period and blew their union
apart-Easy Rider. Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a fascinating account of the
Hopper and Hayward union and a deeply researched panoramic cultural history. It's the intimate
saga of one couple whose own rise and fall-from youthful creative flowering to disorder and
chaos-mirrors the very shape of the decade.
