Linda Ronstadt knew that the Doors had something special, but she thought this one crucial decision was holding them back.

The Doors' Robby Krieger didn't think Val Kilmer looked like Jim Morrison when he was cast in the 1991 Oliver Stone-directed ...

Linda Ronstadt once recalled watching and enjoying The Doors perform live, but admitted that she felt they would have been ...

At first skeptical, guitarist Robby Krieger was quickly convinced of Val Kilmer's talent as the actor dove into playing Doors singer Jim Morrison.

Kotcheff was integral in First Blood, even as the pic almost imploded when Sylvester Stallone decided his Rambo character wasn’t going to die, like in the book and the script. The film’s financing was ...

I mean, he neither looked nor acted anything like Jim. So I said, 'How did you get the job?' " According to the outlet, Kilmer then showed him a video of himself singing as Morrison in "a Doors ...

That would be director Ted Kotcheff, who essentially launched Carolco with First Blood, and Val Kilmer on The Doors, playing the iconic singer Jim Morrison even though Tom Cruise was desperate to ...

Robby Krieger, guitarist for the legendary '60s band The Doors, had come to meet Val Kilmer, a young actor who had landed the plum if difficult role of Jim Morrison, the band's lead singer ...

When the Doors first met Jim Morrison, not everyone was convinced he had the potential to be a rock ‘n’ roll frontman…that is, until they heard the lyrics to what would become one of the ...