Confessions, poems, and vignettes are peppered throughout actor Val Kilmer's new memoir, “I’m Your Huckleberry.” Here’s a look at some of his most memorable moments.
, “vomiting blood that covered the bed like a scene out of The Godfather,” he writes. Cher called him an ambulance and was with him when he underwent his tracheotomy and chemotherapy sessions.Kilmer also did not want to star in ‘Top Gun’by his agent. “I didn’t want the part. I didn’t care about the film. The story didn’t interest me,” Kilmer writes.“I read the lines indifferently and yet, amazingly, I was told I had the part,” he added. “I felt more deflated than inflated.
“He never did thank me for the Iceman-style bit,” he continued. “I thought it would break the ice, but I guess the ice was just right.”More than two decades later, the roles had reversed when Kilmer wasn’t initially invited to appear in the sequel. He begged to return.
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