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Val Kilmer (Doc Holliday) Sam Elliott (Virgil Earp) Kurt Russell  (Wyatt Earp) Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp) / Mark Fuhrman and Jeff Free in People 3/3 1997

 

Notice how the 1st and 2nd position of Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday are reversed but Wyatt and Morgan are not.

 

Val Kilmer is Doc Holliday in Tombstone. He's the adult Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (91). From a Wiki article on Jim Morrison "The Doors took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception (a reference to the unlocking of doors of perception through psychedelic drug use). Huxley's own title was a quotation from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which Blake wrote: "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." In Batman, the animated series, Kevin Conway as the voice of Batman quotes William Blake in "Tyger! Tyger!" (October 30, 1992). In Batman Forever (June 6, 1995) Val Kilmer is Batman.

 

 "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison, which he uses in his song L.A. Woman.

 

Murder in Brentwood, Page 219: "I spent many hours in Marcia's office, watching her smoke cigarettes, a five-foot poster of Jim Morrison looming behind her desk. Marcia was very surprised to discover that I knew who Jim Morrison  was and that I was a big Doors fan myself. She laughed when I told her that the only rock concert I had ever been to was the Doors in 1969. We told each other what our favorite songs were, but thank God, neither one of us started singing."

 

In Fuhrman's Murder in Greenwich movie, he works in a reference to the Doors in a scene with Tommy Skakel coming to the window of his father's Lincoln with Martha Moxley and his brother Michael in the front seat. Tommy, who is smoking a cigarette, asks Michael if the tape he's listening to is his Doors tape. Fuhrman's Murder in Greenwich movie also makes a reference to the original Star Trek TV series with Tommy giving Martha a driving lesson.

 

In the 1968 Star Trek episode called Spectre of the Gun, Captain Kirk and three of his officers are forced to reenact the gunfight at the O.K. Corral as the Clanton and McLaury brothers. In this telling of the story, the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil and especially Morgan, are cold-blooded killers Sam Gilman  is Wyatt's friend Doc Holliday. His birthday is February 5, Mark Fuhrman's birthday.   

 

Another Doc Holliday link to Fuhrman that anyone who compares Tombstone to John Ford's Stagecoach will see in the Southern gambler/notorious killer character with the telescoping silver cup. Val Kilmer's Holliday had to have been patterned after John Carradine's Hatfield, who was probably patterned after the real Doc Holliday. Anytime you see John Carradine in a movie you've got a Fuhrman link because they share a February 5 birthday. It's rare to see the credits of a movie in which two actors share a birthday. Stagecoach is one of them. The birthday is Fuhrman's. The other actor with Fuhrman's birthday is Tim Holt. He plays the young cavalry officer who saves the day for all the passengers on the stagecoach except Hatfield.