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Named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 50 Best Hollywood Books of All Time

The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak

“An exceptionally well-researched and well-written book . . . [about the] unlikely, outrageous, and creatively dazzling union of a madman and a queen.” —Wall Street Journal

"Wonderful. . . . [A] rollicking tale. . . . By centering his book on the juxtaposition of opposing worlds—of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward; of an America seemingly poised to run on flower power and an America that can’t quite manage a civil Thanksgiving meal—Rozzo makes each world, each character and each reality both shocking and believable, both ridiculous and sublime."—Washington Post

"At once a biography of a wildly creative and inventive couple and a landmark and long-overdue cultural history. . . . It is that rare thing: A thrilling read that brings us inside a scandalously under-reported time and place."—Vogue

"A portrait not only of a marriage but of a critical American artistic awakening. . . . Rozzo paints a neon picture of [Hayward and Hopper's] milieu. . . . a life and time in Technicolor."—Vanity Fair

"The glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A. . . . Mark Rozzo brings the lost scene to life in Everybody Thought We Were Crazy."—Los Angeles Times

2022 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award, Los Angeles Press Club

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