The cover for “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy.” (Ecco) “Everybody Thought We Were Crazy,” by Mark Rozzo (Ecco) In the early 1960s, the hip place to gather for young artists, actors, musicians and other artistic types and their followers was 1712 North Crescent Heights in Hollywood Hills. It was the California home of Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper, who were the Gerald and Sara Murphy of the 1960s.