Val Kilmer Dies

He became the youngest student accepted into Juilliard’s Drama Division.

Val Edward Kilmer, born on December 31, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, was an American actor renowned for his versatility and intense screen presence. Raised in the San Fernando Valley, he attended Chatsworth High School alongside future stars like Kevin Spacey and Mare Winningham. At 17, he became the youngest student accepted into Juilliard’s Drama Division, where he honed his craft before transitioning from stage to screen. Kilmer’s breakout role came as “Iceman” in Top Gun (1986),

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News of the World (2020)

News of the World was the sixth studio album, released October 28, 1977 on EMI Records by the band Queen. It is also the 2020 Universal Pictures release, a western starring Tom Hanks, that I watched on Netflix DVD. It is about Hanks’ character, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd who travels Texas, just after the Civil War, reading the news to crowds of towns people who just want to know what’s going on out there in the rest of the country and the world. He rescues a young white girl, Johanna (Helena Zengel), who had been living with Kiowa Indians after her family was killed.

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