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That’s the amount of popcorn we‘ll need while watching tCun get hammered by the NCAA.

In many ways Kent was far more insidious than Johnny Ringo

 

[ScriptOhio]

Kurt Russell Reveals He and Val Kilmer Exchanged These Dark Gifts After Filming 'Tombstone' in 2024 Interview

Kurt Russell revealed in a resurfaced interview that he and the late Val Kilmer exchanged rather dark gifts after filming 1993's 'Tombstone' together.

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Kurt Russell Reveals He and Val Kilmer Exchanged These Dark Gifts After Filming Tombstone in 2024 Interview​

The actor played the role of Wyatt Earp alongside the late Kilmer's Doc Holliday in the iconic 1993 Western

The late Val Kilmer had a dark sense of humor when it came to gift giving.

In a January 2024 interview with GQ, Kurt Russell revealed that he and Kilmer, who died on April 1 at the age of 65, exchanged rather dark gifts after wrapping filming on their 1993 Western, Tombstone.

Speaking to GQ, Russell, 74, said that actors used to exchange gifts after wrapping filming, despite it not being a “mandatory gesture.”

“If you’re asking me if it was great working with Val Kilmer, who played Doc Holliday on Tombstone, the answer is absolutely,” Russell, who portrayed Wyatt Earp in the movie, said.

“In those days, especially when you were working with people, sometimes at the end of the show you’d get them gifts or trade gifts,” he continued. “It’s not mandatory, it’s not something that you gotta do or that they’ve gotta do.”

Russell revealed that he asked his driver if he could “get a hold” of Kilmer’s holster, gun, hat and chair “with his name on the back" from the movie.

“Take a picture, and then in that picture I wanted to have this thing,” the Hollywood icon explained.

Russell went on to share that he gifted Kilmer a burial plot in Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona, a cemetery where many famous figures of the Old West were laid to rest.

“I give Val this present and he looks at me and he turns to his driver and he says, ‘Give it to me.’ Because what I had gotten Val was a plot at Boothill, what Val had gotten me was an acre of land overlooking Boothill."

“Doc Holliday was all about death, but Wyatt’s all about life,” Russell said with a laugh. “I guess that pretty much says it all."

Kurt Russell Bought Val Kilmer a Burial Plot in Iconic Cemetery

The poignant, and at the time joking, gift was linked to their roles in “Tombstone.”

www.thedailybeast.com

Kurt Russell Bought Val Kilmer a Burial Plot in Iconic Cemetery​

Val Kilmer's family will have the option of burying him in an unlikely—but highly appropriate—place: Boot Hill Cemetery. Kilmer was gifted a plot in the most famous graveyard of the Wild West by Kurt Russell after the two finished their classic Western, Tombstone, Russell told GQ last year.

R.I.P.

 

[DubCoffman62]

My name is Nick.

What's it mean?

I don't know... Something my dad thought of while shaving.

Top Secret

 

[Jaxbuck]

Not to be forgotten is how he nailed the voice/ghost of Elvis in True Romance.

Epic movie and cast. Even in that bit part he was memorable

 

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[AKAK]

Not to be forgotten is how he nailed the voice/ghost of Elvis in True Romance.

Epic movie and cast. Even in that bit part he was memorable

He was in top gun less than 10 minutes i think

 

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Top Secret

Skeet surfin!

 

[DubCoffman62]

Skeet surfin!

 

[ScriptOhio]

Jay North, TV's mischievous Dennis the Menace, dies at 73

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV’s “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died

abcnews.go.com

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

North died Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, after battling colon cancer, said Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend, and Bonnie Vent, who was his booking agent.

“He had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with ‘I love you with all my heart,’” Jacobson wrote in a tribute on Facebook.

North was 6 when he was cast as the smiling troublemaker in the CBS sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham's popular comic strip that took place in an idyllic American suburb.

Often wearing a striped shirt and overalls, Dennis' mischievous antics frequently frustrated his retired next-door neighbor George Wilson, played by Joseph Kearns. Dennis' patient parents were played by Herbert Anderson and Gloria Henry.

Dennis The Menace
R.I.P.

 

[Steve19]

Perhaps a good time to remember Dennis Ketchum, the real Dennis the Menace. His father appears to have been the poster child for a bad parent and he lived a very sad life until ending up in Columbus. I met him on Pearl Alley back in the day. For all the he went through, he seemed like a really nice guy and I believe he found peace in Columbus.

See this link (The true story of Dennis the Menace), which is perhaps said more directly by a Reddit poster here (link).

Taken from Reddit.

Unlike his cartoon alter ego, Ketcham did not lead a storybook life. He had learning disabilities as a boy. An alcoholic mother and a father with a busy work schedule meant there was little time left for him. After his mother filed for divorce in 1959, he was sent to a boarding school. Soon after, his mother died from an accidental drug overdose at age 41. His father remarried to Jo Anne Stevens and moved the family to Geneva, Switzerland. Ketcham had a difficult time in Swiss boarding school, so his father sent him to a boarding school in the United States while Hank and his new wife remained in Europe.

After graduating, Ketcham joined the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. Upon his return, he was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and drifted from one low-paying job to another. In the late 1970's Dennis worked at the old Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. By 1990, he was living in Ohio and estranged from his father.

 

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