It’s a passionate book filled with love and, surprisingly, spirituality. Throughout his memoir, he shares not only personal stories but also personal messages to the people he’s loved and sometimes hurt. He discusses his early romance with Cher and Winningham herself, as well as his eventual marriage to, family with, and divorce from co-star Joanna Whalley, and a later fling with Carly Simon. The production, as it turns out, was excellent, handled by Will Forte (briefly), George Newbern (mostly), and Mare Winningham (poetically).Īs a memoir, this book traces Kilmer’s memories of upbringing and entrance into theater before he landed some breakout roles in movies I’ve never seen. Was it a contractual error or intentional? Are he and Kilmer great friends in real life? Hard to say, but clearly, Val himself couldn’t record his own story by voice, since his battle with throat cancer has left his tongue oversized and his voice seriously gravely and slurred. I listened to it on audio through the Libby app, and while I was happy with the production, I wasn’t quite sure why Will Forte read only like three of the many chapters. I don’t often read books by or about celebrities (the most recent being Confessions of a Prairie B*tch by Nellie from The Little House on the Prairie), but this one promised both to dredge up some happy memories and to answer some of my unimportant questions-I felt like I had to give it a go. When my two buds and I first moved overseas, one of them often summarized our experiences by singing Top Gun‘s theme song, bursting out at inopportune moments: “Fly in-to the DAN-ger zone!” We also collectively held an odd fascination for the movie Willow during that first year, and of course, the only thing these two wildly different movies have in common is their ruggedly handsome (so the ladies say) supporting actor, Val Kilmer.
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