He was Jim Morrison* and Elvis Presley**.
He was The Iceman.
He was Batman, a good enough Batman, in a not-that-great Batman movie.
He even played the voice of KITT the car in a Knight Rider remake.
*In Oliver Stone's The Doors, Val did an excellent Jim Morrison impression, in looks, speech and song...
(**In Tony Scott's film of Quentin Tarantino's True Romance.)
Val Kilmer had a huge screen presence when I was growing up. His star has dwindled and he's been fighting throat cancer in recent years (reluctant to engage with medical procedures due to his religious beliefs), but his death, at only 65, still comes as a shock.
On hearing of his passing, I immediately remembered Father John Misty name-dropping him in this story of faded Hollywood glamour from his 2022 LP Chloë and the Next 20th Century.
