Half-Assed Internet Research
Band and Courson-family opposition; Kilmer eye-contact memo; leather pants; invented scenes; Manzarek's criticism; composite reporter; Mojave fine; Billy Idol's reduced role; Barney's Beanery; Break script rumor
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- The band opposed the film and wanted to be in it, like Queen with its movie; the Courson family wanted Pam portrayed as an angel.
- A memo told someone not to make eye contact with Val Kilmer during filming.
- A participant who profiled Kilmer around 2005-06 interviewed Stone, who said Kilmer's biggest issue was wearing the same black leather pants every day.
- Stone invented or took liberties with the closet fire, Thanksgiving and Morrison's anger over Light My Fire.
- A 1991 Manzarek quote says the film was about "Jimbo Morrison, the drunk," not the sensitive poet and funny guy he knew.
- The reporter was a composite character, not a real person.
- The desert scenes were shot in the East Mojave Preserve, drawing a fine; Billy Idol's role shrank after his motorcycle accident, so he is seated or framed around it.
- The bar Morrison frequents is Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood, where he pisses in the film.
- Did not know which bar it was. — Chris Ryan
- A single-site claim that an early Stone script, Break, an early Platoon, was in Morrison's apartment in France when he died; flagged as half-assed.