Here's Val Kilmer as Tom Van Allen, who is living as Danny Parker, in the Pooh Bear breakfast scene in the little known movie, The Salton Sea. Danny is trying to get Pooh Bear on tape agreeing to a big drug deal for some crank. But this isn't Pooh Bear's first rodeo. This is an incredibly well made movie, chock full of really memorable characters. You should watch this movie. If you're in recovery from meth, crank, or coke, this movie will probably knock you off the wagon. So people in recovery from hard drugs should probably avoid this movie. Luckily, I'm a pizza addict, drugs aren't my thing, so I can watch this movie with reckless abandon. After you watch The Salton Sea movie, look up the actual place, the Salton Sea, it's story is just as crazy as the movie.
"The greatest words on written page
Only come to life when you're on stage"
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excerpt from "Actress," a poem I wrote about 1990. I wrote the poem for my sister's best friend, who's been a dedicated actress since a young age. I lost all copies of this poem years ago, and have forgotten the rest of the poem, unfortunately.
I'm really sorry to hear about the death of actor Val Kilmer. He just died at age 65. I'm generally not huge a fan of specific actors, male or female, but some actors would just keep showing up in movies that became my personal favorites. Val Kilmer was one of those.
Of course, the Hollywood press, like in this Entertainment Tonight tribute, reminds everyone of his best known roles, Iceman in Top Gun, Bruce Wayne and Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in The Doors, and Doc Holiday in Tombstone. All great roles. But none of those roles are why I've been a fan of Val Kilmer's work since the late 1980's.
It's easy to talk shit about actors in general. People say they're all shallow, self-absorbed, and narcissistic. People say actors just want to be movie or TV stars, and live as glamorous prima Donna's. People say that the top actors make way too much money. These things are true for some actors. But then there are the hardcore, devoted actors. They take a writer's characters, described only in words, or maybe simple drawings in some cases. The great actors flesh out and literally become those fictional characters, taking the rest of us on a believable journey, for an hour, two hours, or maybe through a whole TV series. That's a pretty amazing thing to be able to do well. Val Kilmer was one of the greatest at this. Rest in Peace, Mr. Kilmer, in whatever realm the greatest move into after an inspiring journey here on planet Earth.
Here are the main roles that made me a big fan of Val Kilmer's work.
The Saint- 1997- Simon Templar- trailer He played about 15 different roles in this movie.
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