When a group of “dirty” actors rolled into rural Pointe Coupee Parish on motorcycles to film “Easy Rider” more than 50 years ago, few people, if any, imagined the movie they made would achieve the ...

On Feb. 23, 1968 — almost exactly 45 years ago — in the midst of the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Dennis Hopper began shooting a low-budget film about two drug-dealing bikers who hit the ...

The tiny village of Morganza played a big role in “Easy Rider.” On Saturday, at the former Morganza High School, the unincorporated Pointe Coupee Parish community embraced its part in the ...

Peter Fonda will turn 73 years old later this month. He’s enjoyed a six-decade career as an actor, writer, director and producer and has been involved in more than 80 films. But no film Fonda helped ...

Dennis Hopper wasn't from New Orleans. But he should have been. The Oscar-nominated actor, who died Saturday of complications from prostate cancer, was for much of his early career a walking, talking ...