Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Jim Morrison's grave site pulls in the biggest crowds: pilgrims, rockophiles, ragged hippies who look as if they stepped out of a Woodstock Portosan 20 years too late. Last spring, while Oliver Stone's rockudrama on Morrison's group the Doors was still in production, with Val Kilmer in the lead role, one possessive admirer etched this graffito into the Pere-Lachaise headstone: VAL KILMER...
...scrawler was right. Morrison was a gorgeous creature -- face by Michelangelo, a mouth made for pouts and pleasures, his entire persona an erogenous zone -- with an electrifying stage presence. He saw himself, though, as a Romantic poet trapped in a pop star's body and worked hard at punishing that body with all-life binges of alcohol, drugs and heavy sex. "I'm rich and famous, smart and pretty," he must have mused. "Now how can I screw it up?" He did so by speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero...
Kilmer is just conventionally good-looking; he can't prowl like Blake's Tyger or pose with the sultry arrogance of a Beat poet. Nor does he have the intellectual seductiveness that made Morrison a toy of the hip literati. In short, Kilmer is not Jim, and his casting denies The Doors the chance to be a meditation on the lure of sexual power. What else can the movie be? Morrison and his band were not political pathfinders, and musically they were close to negligible, with one compelling tune (Light My Fire) and an ambitious, pretentious attitude. The Doors...
HARVARD (74): Maura Healey 4-6 0-0 9; Heidi Kosh 2-6 3-4 7; Dina Hadrick 5-8 3-3 13; Beth Wambach 1-7 0-0 2; Kelly Morrison 0-2 0-0 0; Heather Harris 2-3 1-1 5; Erin Maher 3-6 0-0 8; Cara Frey 0-1 0-0 0; Jen Mazanec 8-10 4-5 20; Betsy Odita 0-2 1-2 1; Debbie Flandermeyer...
Katie Phillips 3-5 0-0 6; Kelly Morrison...