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       that also featured Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon. He later played   
       Hamlet at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder in 1988   
       and the male lead, Giovanni, opposite Jeanne Tripplehorn in a   
       Public Theater production of the lurid Jacobean tragedy "'Tis   
       Pity She's a Whore," directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, in 1992.   
      
       Mr. Kilmer's marriage to the actress Joanne Whalley, whom he   
       met on the set of Ron Howard's children's fantasy film "Willow"   
       (1988), ended in divorce. His survivors include their children,   
       Mercedes and Jack. Mr. Kilmer lived on a ranch near Santa Fe   
       for many years and once pondered a run for governor of New   
       Mexico.   
      
       Mr. Kilmer's other significant film credits include "The Island   
       of Dr. Moreau" (1996), a horror movie based on an early novel   
       by H.G. Wells; "Wonderland" (2003), a murder story based on a   
       true crime in which he played the pornography star John Holmes;   
       and "Twixt" (2011), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, about a   
       horror writer whose book tour takes him to a creepy town haunted   
       by a years-ago murder of children.   
      
       Like his fellow actor Hal Holbrook, Mr. Kilmer had a longstanding   
       fascination with Mark Twain, and he spent many years researching   
       and writing a one-man play, "Citizen Twain," which he began   
       performing around the country in 2010. (Mr. Kilmer, who had   
       trouble managing his weight, gave his interest in Twain credit   
       for helping him slim down at last.)   
      
       He also appeared as Twain in a 2014 film adaptation of Twain's   
       work, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn," and he planned to   
       direct and star in a film he wrote about Twain and Mary Baker   
       Eddy, the woman who founded Christian Science, whom Twain   
       repeatedly criticized. Mr. Kilmer was a Christian Scientist.   
      
       In 2021, Mr. Kilmer was the subject of "Val," a documentary   
       about him based on decades of archival footage. His children   
       were associate producers, and his son Jack was the narrator.   
       The film won several awards, including a Critics Choice Award   
       for best historical or biographical documentary.   
      
       In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012, Mr. Kilmer   
       spoke about his absence from mainstream Hollywood for a decade   
       or more and acknowledged that his career arc had been unusual.   
       He had other interests, he said; he wanted to hang out with   
       his kids.   
      
       "I don't have any regrets," he said, adding: "It's an adage   
       but it's kind of true: Once you're a star, you're always a   
       star; it's just what level?"   
      
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   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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                        "Anyway, we delivered the bomb."   
      
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