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one more before i go to my scratcher...
What rebel rocker appears on crutches in Oliver Stone's The Doors after a near-fatal cycle accident?

Billie Idol as a roadie

Well done Brian.

I was in that film, as some RRFers know, and spent three days with Paul Williams, Meg Ryan, and Kevin Dillon, and one memorable half-hour having dinner on a fire escape with Nick Cage at 2 am on the shoot.

There were a lot of well-known people doing cameos in that film including Stone himself (as Morrison's film class professor), Billy Vera, Crispin Glover (installed as Warhol, although I'd read for the part and had been OKd but not signed yet), Harmonica Fats, Eric Burdon, John Densmore, Mimi Rogers, Bill Graham, Bonnie Bramlett, Jennifer Tilley, William Kunstler, Richard Nixon, and Charlie Manson hisself. There were also a dozen or so celebrity lookalikes hired, including a John Lennon guy from Athens, GA, whose name I forget, Chrissie Wnterbotham, a blonde model who lived in Japan and made a fortune doing commercials there, who looked like Cybil Shepherd ca. 1968, and another woman who was a dead-ringer for Chrissie Hynde.

That's a cool story Paul even if it is the second time around.

Pics, Paul?

winston wrote:That's a cool story Paul even if it is the second time around.

Lotsa newbies these last couple of years, Brian...

Jerry, cameras were strictly forbidden on-set. I brought one to the reading, though, non-digi of course, and somewhere in my collection I have a print of myself taken by a girlfriend that day, taking off my Warhol hairpiece. As I recall, it was hot as heck and I was miserable in the sun. When I find that print, I'll post it and everybody will think, "what's that all about?", and Brian will say something about the third time being the trick, and we'll go back to discussing the relative lengths of vibrato arms or something...

Cool story Paul it was first time round for me.

I can wait for the book...

Paul, are you saying you played Andy Warhol in that movie? I just watched it the other night!

I wish, Steve!!!

Nope--I read for the part in my Warhol hairpiece and black turtleneck; during the cattle call I was standing in line and my similarity to Warhol in this getup stopped the casting guy in his tracks. They had me read for the part and gave me a call time for the scenes. When I showed up, I found that the part had been given to America's worst and weirdest actor--Crispin Glover, who must have been owed a favor. It took makeup several hours to get him to even remotely resemble Warhol, and he turned up for all three days of filming so stoned that those of us who were in the scene with him had to physically hold him up when we walked down that long hallway with him.

I'm the bald guy in the long black robe with round "Harry Potter"-style eyeglasses. Mostly floating in the background in the final cut. Still have the glasses--they are the real thing, not props.

NO WAY!!! This is hilarious news...I MUST see this flick now...

And may I say, in no uncertain terms and without even having seen it, YOU WUZ ROBBED, man...it shoulda been you without question. My lack of opinion concerning Crispin Glover has been replaced by something, well, let's just be nice and call it 'negative'.

(Among other things, I can't stand a stoner who can't handle being stoned...)

Well, is there anything you can't find on the web? Maybe, but I can't think of it at the moment...


(Glover looks like he's doing Woody Allen doing Blanche DuBois doing Warhol...)

Is that Paul at 1:24 of the YouTube clip over "Ray's" shoulder?

Here's a trivia question for you all...

In the 1970's, an American rock and roll act once released an album that included a song written by a mother as well as another song written by her son.

Can you name the act, the two songs, and the two composers?