(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BLUE VELVET") DENNIS HOPPER: (As Frank Booth ... like an amyl nitrite or a nitric oxide, and I asked David if it would be all right to play it that way.

Blue Velvet, Lynch's nightmarish ... out that she's in thrall to a deranged, nitrous oxide-huffing criminal, Frank Booth (a terrifying Dennis Hopper). He finds himself amidst Frank and his ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.