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Morrison, Disney: Livin' Large in France!
A couple items of note out of Paris today: The first has to do with Morrison's gravesite at the famed Pere Lachaise cemetery; the other, with that supposedly hated symbol of can-do America, Disneyland Paris.
As for Morrison: Officials at Pere Lachaise are newly denying reports that the Doors icon, buried there in 1971, will be dug up come 2001 when the 30-year lease on his grave expires.
In the first place, USA Today reports, there is no lease on the Morrison plot--his site, as with all sites at the cemetery, was purchased in perpetuity.
And in the second place, it's an A-list tourist attraction.
"It's visited by so many people that it will never be transferred," a Paris sociologist is quoted as saying, in the paper.
Ironically, it was Morrison's enduring appeal--particularly among wannabe hippie kids who love to pay homage to the fallen Lizard King with any old trinket (condoms, panties, beer cans, etc.)--that supposedly was drawing his eviction notice.
A Rolling Stone report, citing as a source none other than Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, said workers at Pere Lachaise had had it with the looky-loos.
But all that now appears to be empty concern. Morrison is safe and sound. (Of course, on the downside, he's still dead.)
In the case of Disneyland Paris, that story also has a happy ending. If you're, like, not into culture or anything.
According to a report out of Paris' tourist office, the six-year-old theme park (originally called EuroDisney) is now the City of Lights' top attraction.
Besting Notre Dame. The Eiffel Tower. The Arc de Triomphe. The Louvre.
Yes, even Jim Morrison's grave.
It would seem that last year, 12.6 million people visited the Happiest Place on Earth (West European Branch).
Among France's old crumbly historic things, the strongest challenger to Mickey Mouse was the cathedral at Notre Dame, which attracted 12 million visitors--some of whom actually knew they weren't going to be coming away with Lou Holtz autographs.
Disneyland's domination of the Paris-tourism scene is a marked turnaround from the park's early, unloved years when the notoriously snooty French acted, well, notoriously snooty.
But Le Big Thunder Mountain, apparently, has a way of wearing down one's resistance.
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