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...Morrison drawls, “There is a heavy, gloomy feeling of someone not quite at home... aware of a lot of things but not sure of anything.” That feeling pervades this portrait of The Doors, lovingly assembled by director and writer Tom Dicillo, who recounts the history of the tumultuous band while trying to disentangle fact from myth...
...Dicillo offers an intimate look at Morrison, allowing the viewer to see him as person, not just another rock star falling off the deep end. The film even includes footage of Morrison in his hometown with his family, when he started reading Friedrich Nietzsche and William Blake at the age of 16. In fact, the name of the band originates from a line in Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell...
...also no doe-eyed Meg Ryan to distract from the excitement of The Doors’ ride to fame. Dicillo’s documentary also lacks the exaggerated flamboyance that pervades Stone’s adaptation. Instead of making it seem that Morrison was born in the spotlight, DiCillo offers a very candid perspective, effectively highlighting Morrison’s metamorphosis from a shy, unsure singer to the wild performer who became conditioned to relish attention...
Morrison’s self-described “music for the different and the uninvited” serves as a perfect score to the story of his life. DiCillo does a great job of including both hits and lesser-known songs when appropriate. It is especially poignant to hear Morrison croon “The End” as images of other fallen legends, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, drift across the screen...
...Still, it's not clear how much all the shouting back and forth will change Ohio voters' notions about the candidates' positions on trade. Leaving his shift as a driver for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mike DiCillo stopped to chat with fellow Teamsters campaigning for Obama outside the newspaper's gates, one of hundreds of so-called worksite visits the union is doing daily across Ohio. DiCillo, 47, is planning to vote for Obama on Tuesday, in large part because of Bill Clinton. "The Teamsters endorsed Bill Clinton and then he gave us NAFTA," said the 22-year union member...