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RIP: Val Kilmer Reuters says... April 1 (Reuters) - Val Kilmer, the California-born, Juilliard-trained actor who starred in films including "Top Gun," "The Doors," "Tombstone" and "Batman Forever" and earned a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65.
The cause of death was pneumonia, the paper said, citing his daughter Mercedes Kilmer.
Kilmer was one of Hollywood's most prominent leading men in the 1990s before numerous spats with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dented his career. Over the years, Kilmer gained a reputation as temperamental, intense, perfectionistic and sometimes egotistical. "When certain people criticize me for being demanding, I think that's a cover for something they didn't do well. I think they're trying to protect themselves," Kilmer told the Orange County Register newspaper in 2003. "I believe I'm challenging, not demanding, and I make no apologies for that." Every day when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being ME. |
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Very sad. He was a very underrated actor and if you go back and look at him in the likes of Heat, Tombstone, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Doors you can see just how brilliant he was. | |
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I'd be his Huckleberry. I've fucked with Val since Real Genius and Top Secret! |
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luv2tha99s said: I'd be his Huckleberry. I've fucked with Val since Real Genius and Top Secret! Top Secret is a great movie. I love all those Naked Gun/Airplane type of movies. My favourite Val Kilmer movie is probably Heat. There was a sequel novel released there about 2 years ago that follows his character after the ending of the original movie and all throughout the book I was picturing Val Kilmer acting out these new scenes and imagining how the movie would play out on the big screen. The movie is actually going ahead now but will obviously have a new cast. But I already know that they won't live up to Kilmer, Pacino and De Niro. | |
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ShellyMcG said: luv2tha99s said: I'd be his Huckleberry. I've fucked with Val since Real Genius and Top Secret! Top Secret is a great movie. I love all those Naked Gun/Airplane type of movies. My favourite Val Kilmer movie is probably Heat. There was a sequel novel released there about 2 years ago that follows his character after the ending of the original movie and all throughout the book I was picturing Val Kilmer acting out these new scenes and imagining how the movie would play out on the big screen. The movie is actually going ahead now but will obviously have a new cast. But I already know that they won't live up to Kilmer, Pacino and De Niro. The book sounds great I'll have to pick it up, thanks. Too bad about the sequel it will not live up to the original. |
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luv2tha99s said: ShellyMcG said: Top Secret is a great movie. I love all those Naked Gun/Airplane type of movies. My favourite Val Kilmer movie is probably Heat. There was a sequel novel released there about 2 years ago that follows his character after the ending of the original movie and all throughout the book I was picturing Val Kilmer acting out these new scenes and imagining how the movie would play out on the big screen. The movie is actually going ahead now but will obviously have a new cast. But I already know that they won't live up to Kilmer, Pacino and De Niro. The book sounds great I'll have to pick it up, thanks. Too bad about the sequel it will not live up to the original. It actually is a really good book. It was written by Michael Mann too, who directed the original movie, so it's as legit a sequel as you can get. Part of the book is a prequel following the Robert De Niro character and part is a sequel following both the Val Kilmer and Al Pacino characters. | |
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