Inside the swinging ’60s home where Dennis Hopper’s marriage unraveled
“Everybody Thought We Were Crazy” (Ecco) by Mark Rozzo.The house, known as just “1712,” was owned by actress Brooke Hayward and her enfant terrible husband Hopper during eight tumultuous years of marriage, and filled to the brim with her found objects and his collection of contemporary art that, as Joan Didion remarked, “seems the result of some marvelous scavenger hunt.” The house “embodied the collision of Old Hollywood and New, of chic bohemia and burgeoning counterculture,” Rozzo writes, where you could as easily run into the Black Panthers as Jack Nicholson. Jane Fonda called it “a magical house.”But with magic sometimes comes monsters.1712 was also where Hopper unraveled.