Whatever happened to Val Kilmer? Like many people of my generation, I have fond memories of Val Kilmer. I'm not talking about the volleyball playing, chiseled Iceman who shared such uncomfortably good screen chemistry with Maverick in Top Gun. I'm talking about the brilliant, charismatic, endearingly irreverent Chris Knight of Real Genius.
In The New Cult Canon, Scott Tobias revisits the most appealing incarnation of Val Kilmer and the zenith of the lovable nerd comedies of the '80s.
If there ever was a poster boy for the pitfalls of taking yourself too seriously it would be Val Kilmer, a bad boy forever on the run from his God-given ability to capture snarky sunshine on the silver screen and make the antisocial antipathy associated with genius a fiction as opposed to a reality.
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About Me
- John-D Borra
- Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
- "Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labour by which all things live...Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this; that by its creed joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special and small." I celebrate life. Do you?
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