Raise a cheer for two of Hollywood’s most commendably determined old antagonists. Dennis Hopper and Rip Torn have been (occasionally quite literally) at daggers-drawn since falling out in a New York restaurant more than 40 years ago. Happily, both are still with us and making news.

Last week, Hopper, looking seriously frail at 73, turned up to receive his belated star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with children from various marriages and old friends Jack Nicholson and Viggo Mortensen.

Hopper is, sadly, suffering from the advanced stages of prostate cancer, but he still seems capable of getting into trouble. The bandage on his forehead resulted from a fall he reportedly had after mistaking a pal for a paparazzo.

Meanwhile, his old sparring partner, now 79, was showing an even greater capacity to raise hell and spread disorder. Rip Torn, so brilliant over the years in everything from The Larry Sanders Show to The Man Who Fell to Earth, appeared in court on Tuesday to answer charges of breaking into a bank with a loaded gun. The incident happened in January, but the full bizarre details are only emerging now.

Prosecutors say that, following too many beverages, Torn stumbled into the bank (how?) and, thinking he was at home, lay down on the floor and went to sleep. When police arrived, he demanded to know what they were doing in hishouse.