Writer Rob Sheffield remembers Val Kilmer's performance in 'The Doors' and why he was the perfect Jim Morrison.

Charismatic and versatile, he also won praise for memorable roles as Iceman in 'Top Gun' and Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone,' but ...

Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts ...

I always marveled at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val’s possessing and expressing ...

This being an Oliver Stone film, The Doors is less concerned with historical accuracy than it is with using a hazy mash-up of ...

Andy Fallon/Camera Press, via Redux Supported by By Bruce Weber Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and ...

Jim Carrey, Nicolas Cage and Cher lead tributes to Top Gun and Batman Forever star - Hollywood actor, known for his intense ...

This is referring to the actress Caitlin O’Heaney, who auditioned for Pamela Morrison, and told Buzzfeed that during a performance of a domestic argument scene, Kilmer punched her and then threw her ...

A unique talent, Val Kilmer was praised as an acting chameleon who took on varied and challenging roles, and the results were ...

Val Kilmer, the Hollywood legend, passed away on April 1 at 65. His iconic roles in films like Top Gun and The Doors are ...

Jim Morrison,” like she’s Aunt Bee or something. But Kilmer believed in the Jim myth all the way. “I primarily saw myself playing a poet,” Kilmer recalled in his memoir I’m Your Huckleberry.