#ThrowbackThursday Today in 1969, Village Voice Scenes reporter Howard Smith grilled Jim Morrison of The Doors at the bands Sunset Strip office. Jim was dragged into talking about problems with bookings since his Miami indecency arrest, posing for sultry pinup photos, his favorite music, education at UCLA, and forming of the band, not to mention his expanding waistline... Jim also briefly mentioned a screenplay he had been working on with Michael McClure over the summer. Entitled St. Nicholas, according to McClure the mystical story was an adventure novel about an anarchist, visionary idealist coke dealer who is an outlaw motorcycle rider. Sort of a sociopath anarchist, artist, idealist, dope dealer, back in the days of the sixties when those were real people. The characters in it are based on people I knew. The interviewer from the Village Voice indicates that the story sounds similar to the recently released runaway indie hit Easy Rider. Jim: Yeah, I know but there’s nothing I can do about it. This…this story was written before Easy Rider was made, you know and it’s just superficial similarities. It’s….I know people are gonna, you know call attention to that, but I don’t know what to do about it. It’s…it’s very similar to Easy Rider in its superficial aspects. Do you know, I read in Daily Variety yesterday…..Easy Rider was made for about $385,000 dollars and the estimated gross so far….50 to 60 million dollars! He said in a religious hushed tone…50 to 60 million dollars. That’s quite a profit margin, m’dear…breaks precedents all over the place because it’s the first essentially independent, low budget feature to really clean up in the old marketplace…it’s gonna open the scene up for a lot of people. Only two copies of Morrison & McClures script are known to exist, one in the UC Berkeley Bancroft library, and a copy found in deceased film producer Bill Belascos papers. The movie was never made, and Jim got fatter and died. https://youtube/watch?v=BhszZ53SEC8
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:20:34 +0000
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