From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   David Carson  wrote:   
      
   >>    Mr. Kilmer had top billing (ahead of Sam Shepard) in "Thunderheart"   
   >>    (1992), playing an unseasoned F.B.I. agent investigating a   
   >>    murder on a South Dakota Indian reservation, and in "The Saint"   
   >>    (1997), a thriller about a debonair, resourceful thief playing   
   >>    cat-and-mouse with the Russian mob. Most famously, perhaps,   
   >>    between Michael Keaton and George Clooney he inhabited the   
   >>    title role (and the batsuit) in "Batman Forever" (1995), doing   
   >>    battle in Gotham City with Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the   
   >>    Riddler (Jim Carrey), though neither Mr. Kilmer nor the film   
   >>    were viewed as stellar representatives of the Batman franchise.   
      
   >I thought Kilmer was the best Bruce Wayne of the bunch.   
      
   >Our stupid local news did a montage of Kilmer's best-known roles and   
   >included a picture of Clooney in That Movie *spit*.   
      
   The Saint was a dreadful adaptation of the Leslie Charteris character.   
   For gawd's sake, those books were written in such a way that they made   
   easy adaptation. The movie has as little as possible to do with the   
   original.   
      
   Kilmer truly suffered in the last several years. He'd been left   
   bedridden from the cancer treatment.   
      
   https://www.tmz.com/2025/04/02/val-kilmer-out-bed-years-before-death/   
      
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