Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Tombstone (1993) "Best Doc Holiday Scenes" Val Kilmer (videos)
By Nicholas Stix
We lost Val Kilmer the other day. Throat cancer. The official cause of death given was "pneumonia," but that's silly. You get pneumonia as a knock-out punch, after some other complaint has already beaten you to a pulp, destroyed your immune system, and set you up for the KO.
Kimer worshiped the bum, and gave a pretty good impression of him in the scene in tombstone (in which he played consumption-ravaged "Doc Holiday"), where a bad guy asks him if he's retired, and he replies, "I'm in my prime."
I have seen so many scenes from Tombstone so many times that I feel as if I've seen the picture.
I first saw Kilmer an indian federal cop in a murder mystery. He was pretty good, in a very restrained role. The biggest mistake in his career was signing up for a remake of the island of dr. moreau, which starred the bum, who had decided to sabotage the shoot by acting like a juvenile delinquent, and Kilmer joined in with him.
Lot of death among the tombstone cast: Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, and now Kilmer. The other day, one of the frauds who maintain hoax channels at youtube lied and asserted that Sam Elliott had also just died.
TOMBSTONE "Best Doc Holiday Scenes" Part 1 (1993) Val Kilmer
TOMBSTONE "Best Doc Holiday Scenes" Part 2 (1993) Val Kilmer
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 2:05:00 AM EDT
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VAL KILMER--PRETTY GOOD MOVIE STAR--DEAD at 65 OF THROAT CANCER.
GRA:I never knew he was ill from throat cancer,but I read just now,he has been for years. Val Kilmer certainly LOOKED like a movie star,maybe one of the last "finds" from a Hollywood that looked for White leading men. Oliver Stone's "The Doors" was a so so movie,but Kilmer's impersonation of Jim Morrison was energetic and realistic.
He was in "Tombstone" and "Top Gun" back in the day, though I don't recall him in those right now.
Smoker? I don't know.
--GRA
Still some recognizable,White actors in '93. Not any in this year's Oscar awards "highlights".
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