Val Kilmer, RIP

[LuFins Dad]

Wow… I liked his Doc Holiday in Tombstone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html

[LuFins Dad]

And this is a consequence of HPV…

[Mik]

Did a good job on Jim Morrison too. But I liked this a lot.

[Horace]

For some reason I thought he'd already passed.

[Mik]

@LuFins-Dad said in Val Kilmer, RIP:

And this is a consequence of HPV…

Could be. I have a good friend who's been going through the same horrible scenario for several years now. He can no longer speak.

[LuFins Dad]

It’s established. I doubt a 65 year old dies of pneumonia without the throat cancer…

[Renauda]

@LuFins-Dad

I suspect you are right. My spouse works almost exclusively with head and neck cancer patients. After the surgeons carve them up they are sent for radiation treatments and ongoing rehab at her hospital. Death from aspiration pneumonia is always a possibility long after treatments and subsequent rehab are completed. That very well might have been Klimer’s fate.

[Jolly]

I think Doc may have been his best role and the one he'll be remembered for.

[NobodySock]

awe nuts. the guy yanked my heart out in that documentary. As good a man as they come. Boy he sure did a good bad guy in Topgun. Hated his guts until the end of the movie. That movie came out right in the middle of my Navy time in Italy. All us sailors pretended we were flyboys for a summer. My favorite navy plane the Tomcat. Love how they gave it a cameo as well in the second movie.

[NobodySock]

@Jolly said in Val Kilmer, RIP:

I think Doc may have been his best role and the one he'll be remembered for.

He did it right, but I think his most amazing role was doing a spitting image of Morrison. That was surreal at times.

[Mik]

it was.