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Jim Morrison: Last Meeting With a Fallen Star

Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 1991

NEAR THE END of his 27-year life, was Jim Morrison – as depicted in Oliver Stone's new movie, The Doors – a fat, abusive, alcoholic, drugged-out, deluded, self-obsessed, self-destructive, humorless, haunted, wasted, washed-up symbol of the death of rock 'n' roll?

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