{"id":82692,"date":"2025-04-02T01:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=82692"},"modified":"2025-04-02T01:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:22:02","slug":"in-memoriam-val-kilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/in-memoriam-val-kilmer\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Val Kilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/m3.gab.com\/media_attachments\/36\/27\/55\/3627558084ebd2da8252cd9ccfed10a8.jpeg?width=568\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"headline speakable\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/val-kilmer-top-gun-batman-forever-star-dead-65\">Val Kilmer, dead at 65<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I believe when it is all said and done Kilmer will go down as one of the greatest actors of our Generation.<\/h2>\n<h2>Besides his legendary role as Doc Holiday in Tombstone, he had some other amazing performances in films such as <em>Heat, Felon, The Saint, Top Gun, The Salton Sea, Real Genius, Wonderland, True Romance (as the ghost of Elvis) and The Ghost and the Darkness.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>RIP Doc &amp; Iceman, you will aways be our Huckleberry!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.startpage.com\/av\/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.srcdn.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2Fval-kilmer-shooting-a-gun-as-chris-shiherlis-in-heat.jpg&amp;sp=1743578190T37df21dea11d217fd8cb2891f4a9622cad90ddcc9e6b13f5cbcba05bba5d6ccb\" alt=\"What Happened To Val Kilmer In Heat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.startpage.com\/av\/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.moviewebimages.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F08%2FVal-Kilmer-and-Michael-Douglas-in-The-Ghost-and-the-Darkness.jpg&amp;sp=1743578282Td950d28220b225c509eef90150f9727fb4a8237898412460ec2b0965ebbfb730\" alt=\"Best '90s Thrillers Starring Michael Douglas, Ranked\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.startpage.com\/av\/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.mWv4_g-SW0MSR2WicJ8UkgHaFj%3Fpid%3DApi&amp;sp=1743578395T6bd5b866d04cd5893d48de184f39576c7418b31f098e8fff7f3f4e0132637a75\" alt=\"\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019: It Was Val Kilmer's Idea to Make Iceman Sick\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Kilmer, dead at 65 &nbsp; I believe when it is all said and done Kilmer will go down as one of the greatest actors of our Generation. Besides his legendary role as Doc Holiday in Tombstone, he had some other amazing performances in films such as Heat, Felon, The Saint, Top Gun, The Salton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3675],"tags":[9281,18646],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82693,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82692\/revisions\/82693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}