Jim Morrison was a college dork? - Democratic Underground

progressoid

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:47 PM
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Jim Morrison was a college dork?

Maybe this is old news (but it's new to me).
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http://207.156.20.133:8080/ramgen/av/jim_morrison.rm?usehostname

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http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/windowsmedia/jim_morrison.wmv

FLORIDA historians have discovered a 40-year-old film clip of a clean-cut Jim Morrison that will give fans a different view of the Doors singer before his wilder days as a drug-using rock legend who drank hard and died young.

The 1964 black-and-white public relations film, shot at Florida State University (FSU,) shows a nerdy-looking Morrison, a rock bad boy who died in 1971 at 27 years old, acting the part of a young man whose university application has been rejected.

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Magrittes Pipe

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:48 PM
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1. He was an adult dork, too.

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Beware the Beast Man

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:48 PM
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2. Damn. Beat me to it.

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WI_DEM

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:49 PM
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3. acting is the key word

by the way I don't think there are dorks and cool people just people who act differently and have different ways of expressing or not expressing themselves.

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progressoid

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:56 PM
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6. yep, I was a college Dork too

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skypilot

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:00 PM
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4. He broke on through to the other side, apparently.

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DinahMoeHum

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:20 PM
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5. Yep, he went to UCLA to study film-making.

Link:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/music/jim-morrison/

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After a brief stint at a Florida college, Morrison trekked to UCLA in 1964, where he studied filmmaking with such prestigious classmates as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Among the lesser cinematographic lights in attendance was a young hippie named Ray Manzarek, whose chief claim to fame as a director came from convincing his Swedish girlfriend to pose nude in one of his student films.
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much more...

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