Val Kilmer

'Citizen Twain' at Valley Performing Arts Center

2013-04-04 00:00:00

Actor Val Kilmer brings the famous American writer Mark Twain to life via his play "Citizen Twain." In it Kilmer becomes unrecognizable as he waxes poetic and philosophical on subjects including love, death, racism, religion and more. Valley Performing...

Disney’s ‘Planes’: New photos, a ‘Top Gun’ reunion

2013-03-28 16:12:46

Val Kilmer taking his offbeat Mark Twain show on the road

2013-03-15 06:45:00

Although it seems like Hal Holbrook has owned the role of Mark Twain�for decades, another actor has staked a theatrical claim to the white-haired novelist and wit. Val Kilmer has been working on "Citizen Twain," a solo play in which he plays the writer,...

Kelly McGillis recalls making the 1986 blockbuster 'Top Gun'

2013-02-07 13:24:00

“I feel the need, the need for speed” Maverick and Goose are flying high once again. The 1986 Tom Cruise fly-boy blockbuster “Top Gun” is soaring back into theaters Friday, souped up in 3D and IMAX.� The 3D Blu-ray lands Feb....

‘Dark Knight Rises’: Tumbler rumbles to Batmobile exhibit

2012-12-04 12:22:58

Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective

2012-08-20 00:08:00

Director-producer Tony Scott, who apparently committed suicide Sunday in San Pedro at age 68, left behind a lengthy filmography. One of the first directors to make the transition from commercials to features, he helmed movies including "Top Gun,”...

Tony Scott, Hollywood's shooter extraordinaire

2012-08-20 16:46:00

In the to-the-point argot of Hollywood, director Tony Scott was known as a shooter, a term of respect that cut two different ways. In one sense, "shooter" referred to the eye for images Tony shared with his brother Ridley, an eye that first came to...

Tony Scott death: Hollywood looks to his films to make sense of tragedy

2012-08-20 12:59:00

With films like “Top Gun” and “Man on Fire,” Tony Scott made spectacle movies about men who live by a code and face death on their own terms -- spies and crime lords, race car drivers and fighter pilots. Recently, the director-...

Man About Town: L.A. Racing school makes him take stock

2012-08-11 00:00:00

You're talking about someone who death-grips his martini. You're talking about someone who double-clutches during teeth cleanings. So what am I doing in a stock car, thundering around a speedway at 120 mph? Killing time till happy hour? To me, all...

Cannes 2012: 'Rocky' producer to take fight to Rebekah Brooks

2012-05-18 16:38:50

Yuri Rasovsky dies at 67; big name in radio dramas, audio books

2012-02-06 00:00:00

Radio drama was thought to be nearly extinct when Yuri Rasovsky launched the National Radio Theater of Chicago in the early 1970s, and he emerged as a major voice in its revival. One of his first productions was a radio adaptation of the 1920 silent...

Grammy nominees include audio books from Tina Fey, Betty White

2011-12-01 16:34:45

Val Kilmer as Mark Twain in his stage show that will have a short tour starting April.

2013-03-14 16:01:05

A newly remastered Imax 3-D version of the 1986 action film about a group of elite fighter pilots competing to be the best in their class. With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards. Written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. Directed by Tony Scott. Paramount Pictures

2013-01-11 10:54:00

Erich Mueller, left, and Carly Altier at a kickoff celebration hosted by actor Val Kilmer for The Bougainvilla House. The event raised more than $30,000 for the newly designed residential facility for the intervention and treatment of substance abuse in adolescents.

2012-12-21 00:00:00