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Mario Kassar: How Ted Kotcheff Got ’80s Juggernaut Carolco Going & How Close Tom Cruise Came To Playing Jim Morrison Over Val Kilmer
EXCLUSIVE: I caught up with Carolco co-founder Mario Kassar, who had two recently deceased artists on his mind, and how they ...
“They’d be a much better group”: Why Linda Ronstadt thought The Doors would have been better without Jim Morrison
Linda Ronstadt once recalled watching and enjoying The Doors perform live, but admitted that she felt they would have been ...
The Doors' Robby Krieger Recalls Thinking the Late Val Kilmer Didn't Look Like Jim Morrison When He Landed Biopic Role
The Doors' Robby Krieger didn't think Val Kilmer looked like Jim Morrison when he was cast in the 1991 Oliver Stone-directed ...
Doors guitarist looks back at Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison, band's 60th anniversary
At first skeptical, guitarist Robby Krieger was quickly convinced of Val Kilmer's talent as the actor dove into playing Doors ...
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Doors guitarist looks back at Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison, band's 60th anniversary
Robby Krieger, guitarist for the legendary '60s band The Doors, had come to meet Val Kilmer, a young actor who had landed the plum if difficult role of Jim Morrison, the band's lead singer ...
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Mario Kassar: How Ted Kotcheff Got ’80s Juggernaut Carolco Going & How Close Tom Cruise Came To Playing Jim Morrison Over Val Kilmer
That would be director Ted Kotcheff, who essentially launched Carolco with First Blood, and Val Kilmer on The Doors, playing the iconic singer Jim Morrison even though Tom Cruise was desperate to ...
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The Doors' Robby Krieger Recalls Thinking the Late Val Kilmer Didn't Look Like Jim Morrison When He Landed Biopic Role
I mean, he neither looked nor acted anything like Jim. So I said, 'How did you get the job?' " According to the outlet, Kilmer then showed him a video of himself singing as Morrison in "a Doors ...