I'm your huckleberry / Val Kilmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilmer, Val, 1959-2025, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kilmer, Val, 1959-2025.

Kilmer, Val.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

United States.

Kilmer, Val, 1959-.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

I am your huckleberry

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Simon and Schuster, 2020.

Summary:

"Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography. Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career. A table-dancing Cold War agent in Top Secret! A trouble-making science prodigy in Real Genius. A brash fighter pilot in Top Gun. A swashbuckling knight in Willow. A lovelorn bank robber in Heat. A charming master of disguise in The Saint. A wise-cracking gumshoe in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Of course, Batman, Jim Morrison, and the sharp-shooting Doc Holliday. But who is the real Val Kilmer? In this memoir-published ahead of next summer's highly anticipated sequel Top Gun: Maverick, in which Kilmer returns to the big screen as Tom "Iceman" Kazansky--the actor steps out of character and reveals his true self. Kilmer reflects on his acclaimed career, recounts his high-profile romances, chronicles his spiritual journey and reveals details of his recent throat cancer diagnosis and recovery-about which he has disclosed little until now. While containing plenty of tantalizing celebrity anecdotes, I'm Your Huckleberry-taken from the famous line Kilmer delivers as Holliday in Tombstone-is ultimately a deeply moving reflection on mortality and the mysteries of life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The pinball machine

Happy trails to you, Roy Rogers and Charles Manson

Grandpa Kilmer's grave in truth or consequences

Father's flying dream, facing the chief

Spooked by love

The deepest wound

THE Juilliard school

Tadashi Suzuki and the elusive nature of fate

Cher likes my Harley

Top Secret!

Real Genius

Father & son

New Mexico is called the "Land of enchantment" or, as I'm proud to have coined, the "Land of entrapment"

I did Top Gun, son

You're so Twain (Carly)

Let's go upstairs

Willow

The Doors

Shattered

Brando

Confusions & contradictions

Thunderheart

Colic convulsion then holy miracle

Doc holidays

True Romance

Eugene D. Kilmer

The Kudu

Batman, but forever?

Take the Heat

Birth & death

The island is Dr. Moreau

Crocodiles & ecstasy

The sinner is the saint

More, more, more

Never the Twain shall meet

Soft opening

Declarations of independence

Gay as a pink hairnet

Siren on a snowboard

Hiding from God

Kiss kiss kiss goes the indie, bang bang bang goes the downey

Land

Glory & gore

Denial vs. denial

The iceman cometh again

HelMel.

Other Format:

Online version: Kilmer, Val, I'm your huckleberry

ISBN:

9781982144890

1982144890

OCLC:

1133662474

Publisher Number:

99985040803