Word: mythomaniac
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Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman have a fertile subject in Morrison, a reckless and unreconstructed mythomaniac who made the Doors into a band better known for their own notoriety than their reheated acid rock. Before he bloated his body with booze and fried his brain with various combinations of pharmacological excess, Morrison, the son of a rear admiral, was as stunning as a model. He was also the self-appointed model for the self-destructive rock idol...
...Reading about Lee Marvin's well-deserved Academy Award [April 29] reminds me of the story he told [June 4] about putting the "white eye" on me and scaring me so badly on a live TV show that I dropped my pistol. Lee is a very funny mythomaniac. Enclosed is the moldy kinescope of that show done nine years ago: it shows I hold on to the pistol even when dead. As my father remarked, "That boy's dropped a lot of things in his life, but I doubt he would drop a pistol...