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APRIL 24--The parents of Jim Morrison yesterday sued two of their son's former Doors bandmates, claiming that the musicians, now touring in a reformed version of the famous group, have "maliciously misappropriated" the name and logo of The Doors and are using Morrison's poetry and photos without permission. In a Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, octogenarians George and Clara Morrison allege that Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger have stolen "these valuable property rights" in a bid to promote and market "a new band that they recently organized with two other individuals that have never been associated with the original Doors...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Before The Doors' Jim Morrison made it as a rock singer, he wanted to make films. Now, 34 years after his death, the state of Florida has found and restored what it believes to be the earliest film of Morrison, shot in the early 60s when he attended Florida State University. It was discovered when the Department of State went through 1,000 films in its archive and may have gone unnoticed if Jaime Madden hadn't noticed a familiarity in the way young Morrison was standing in part of the brief clip. "He said, 'Oh my god! This...

Former Doors drummer wins suit against bandmates LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The former drummer for The Doors won a permanent injunction on Friday preventing his bandmates from using the rock group's name while touring with a revamped version of the legendary 1960s act. The Los Angeles Superior Court order also requires keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger, who have been touring as The Doors of the 21st Century, to turn over all the profits earned by the new combo to the original Doors partnership. The decision represents a major victory for Doors drummer John Densmore, who told Reuters he...

LOS ANGELES -- The father of late Doors singer Jim Morrison has broken his silence to share memories of his estranged son, who once sang about killing him and joked that his family was dead. George Morrison, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, is one of the contributors to The Doors by the Doors, an authorized memoir released this week. The book's author, rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres, also interviewed the band's three surviving members and Jim's younger brother and sister, among others. "We look back on him with great delight ... The fact that he's dead is unfortunate but looking back...

Late Doors frontman Jim Morrison is to make an unlikely comeback - an unreleased song featuring the rocker has been found. "Woman in the Window" will be featured on a forthcoming album by rockers Satellite Party. The new song will feature both Morrison and vocals from Satellite Party. An industry insider says, "To hear Morrison performing on a new track is obviously going to be a dream come true for fans. It's being tipped as a massive hit." The icon died of heart failure in 1971, at age 27.

His poem "Woman In The Window" is set to music and will be released as a single in April. Rock legend Jim Morrison is helping the fight against global warming from beyond the grave, with the release of a song he wrote. Environmental campaigners have taken a poem, "Woman In The Window," written by Morrison shortly before he died in 1971, and set it to music, with the help of New Order and former Jane's Addiction star Perry Farrell. The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate. It will be released as a single in April. Dan...

Columnists' Corner "An Interview With Alan Keyes, Part I: "A Deep Moral Challenge" By Jonathan David Morris Amnion is a crisis pregnancy group local to the Philadelphia area. Its mission is to provide pro-life counsel to those contemplating, or in some cases coping with, abortion. A few weeks ago, I decided to reserve a seat at Amnion's 20th anniversary fundraising dinner -- two seats, really, since my better half was there -- and soon determined a mission of my own: To interview the evening's guest speaker, former presidential contender Alan Keyes. And, indeed, I landed the interview, but not...

Columnists' Corner "What Goes Around Comes Around, or: The Case for Perpetual Recall " By Jonathan David Morris Wouldn't it be weird if, a year from now, Californians recall Arnold Schwarzenegger and replace him with Gray Davis? Yeah, I know it's not likely, but I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out. In fact, even as Arnold was winning by a landslide last Tuesday, California Democrat Bob Mulholland was on Fox News joking -- or "joking" -- that another recall was coming in a hundred days. And it's not like stranger things haven't happened before. Remember that one...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Lieberman, Prince of Thieves?" By Jonathan David MorrisYou may recall that Joe Lieberman was one of three Democratic candidates -- along with Dick Gephardt and Dennis Kucinich -- seen begging for forgiveness after skipping an NAACP forum this past July. Having been told by NAACP Pres. Kweisi Mfume, "Your political capital is the equivalent of Confederate dollars," Lieberman attended a later session that week and said, "Anyone aspiring to leadership... must believe that the causes he or she fights for... are right. But leadership also means being able to admit when you are wrong. And by not...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Hey, Big Spender" by A common misconception these days is that last week's addition of Gen. Wesley Clark brings the field of Democratic presidential contenders to a total of ten. This is wrong. There were already ten Democrats running for president, and their names were Howard Dean, John Edwards, John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, Al Sharpton, Bob Graham, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, and George W. Bush. George W. Bush? That's right: George W. Bush, the best damn Democrat in office since Jack Kennedy some 40 years ago. Now, granted, Bush still bears the GOP label,...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Diversity, Drugs, and a Racist Bake Sale: Misadventures in Modern Capitalism " By Jonathan David Morris Last week, the Thought Police thought to send a couple of rent-a-cops over to Southern Methodist University to shut down a -- get this -- bake sale. That's right, a bake sale. Not just any bake sale, of course, but a bake sale hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas. Here's why: They were selling cookies at race-based prices. "A sign said white males had to pay $1," according to the Associated Press, while other rates included "75 cents for white...

FRN Columnists' Corner "America's UN-Witting Surrender " by Jonathan David MorrisRudy Giuliani said something on TV last week -- and I can't remember which station he was on, or else I'd give credit -- but what he said was that New York City shouldn't build a new World Trade Center on the site of the old one. Ground Zero's a landmark, he said, or will be for future generations -- so it's up to us to preserve it. Now, while I agree with America's Mayor that we shouldn't rebuild where the WTC stood -- and especially not if we're going...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Peace Through Resolve " by Jonathan David MorrisGod's honest truth? As a writer, writing about the second anniversary of September 11th isn't as easy as writing about the first one was. The story arc's not so obvious, I mean. Initially, in fact, I'd decided not to write about the second anniversary at all. By now you know what happened, which is part of the problem. You know all about the nineteen men who hijacked four commercial planes. You know how they crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvanian field. As for the thousands who...

FRN Columnists' Corner "A Lean, Mean Fighting Machine: Why Dean Deserves His Party's Nomination " by Jonathan David MorrisFormer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has taken a 38 to 17 percent lead over Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in a Zogby Poll of likely voters in next January’s New Hampshire primary. This makes Dean the Democratic Party’s presidential frontrunner. Don’t look so surprised. For quite some time now, folks on both sides of the political aisle have tried painting Dean as an unelectable goof. Republicans, for example, have sized up his chances against George W. Bush and basically said “bring ‘em on.”...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Life After Death and Taxes" by Jonathan David Morris-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may have missed it, what with all the uproar out in California lately, but another state with budget troubles, Alabama is apparently pitting God against Country in an effort to balance its books. Or at least that's the impression you'd get from Republican Gov. Bob Riley, who recently suggested that good little Christians pay taxes... and lots of them. "According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor," Riley said last month. "It is immoral to...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Let There Be Light " by Jonathan David MorrisI was in an office when it happened -- when the lights flickered and the Net went down. And just like that, about a quarter past four, it felt like 9/11 all over. Folks asked, "What's happening?" But they wondered, "Are we under attack?" And we were under attack, all right, but not like before. Our enemy's name this time was called power. Energy. Electric light. New York and Detroit and Cleveland and Buffalo. Toronto. Ottawa. Anytown, USA. Who on the Northeast wasn't affected by last Thursday's blackouts? Well,...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Sex and the City" by JDMThat he joined the GOP to sneak into office notwithstanding, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has an apparent knack for stating the obvious. Such was the case last week when he noted, in support of the forthcoming Harvey Milk High School for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning -- or LGBTQ -- students, that "gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools." He's right, you know. Gays and lesbians do get picked on. But that's no reason to remove them from mainstream schools. The fact that said schools are...