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Hilton & Joe Russo Liz Smith
January 25,2008
Paris Hilton & Joe Russo!
PARIS HILTON, whose sense of "history" is what she did
the night before last, turns out to be a big fan of the
late Jim Morrison, charismatic lead singer of The Doors.
Hilton's '60s pop culture crawl has led her to
N.Y.-based Morrison look-alike singer Joe Russo. She's
picking his brain to find out where she can purchase
Morrison artifacts. Hilton has already made pilgrimages
to his gravesite, the fabled Pere-Lachaise Cemetery.
(Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Frederic Chopin and
Gertrude Stein keep Jim company.)
Paris' great desire is to own the gold-plated microphone
Morrison used in various concerts and during his
notorious 1968 Ed Sullivan appearance, singing "Light My
Fire." (Sullivan demanded that Jim change the lyric
"girl we couldn't get much higher." The rocker said,
"Sure." Then he went right ahead and sang it his way.
Sullivan was furious; The Doors didn't care.)
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