Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.

Kilmer also wrote book reviews for The Literary Digest, Town & Country, The Nation, and The New York Times.

It was deciphered by Prof. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer ( University of Calif. at Berkeley ), and was demonstrated to be composed in harmonies of thirds, like ancient gymel, and also was written using a Pythagorean tuning of the diatonic scale.

It was also the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.

An apparition of his idol, Elvis Presley ( Kilmer ), tells him that killing Drexl, who is also a drug dealer, will make the world a better place.

He also played an astronaut in Red Planet with Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Benjamin Bratt.

Tombstone is a 1993 American Western directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre ( who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production ) and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Dana Delany, and narrated by Robert Mitchum.

Rothchild also took Kilmer into the studio and helped him in " some pronunciations, idiomatic things that Jim would do that made the song sound like Jim ".

Kilmer also met with Krieger and Densmore but Manzarek refused to talk to him.

The film also starred Hilary Duff and Val Kilmer and premiered at the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2010.

Peralta is also credited in the 1985 movie Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer, William Atherton, and Gabriel Jarret.

Years later, Baker would also serve as executive producer of the 1997 Saint film starring Val Kilmer as Templar.

Anne Draffkorn Kilmer from the University of California at Berkeley published in 1986 her decipherment of cuneiform tablet from Nippur dated to about 2000 BCE, demonstrating that it represents fragmentary instructions for performing music and that the music was composed in harmonies of thirds, and that it was also written using a diatonic scale ( Kilmer 1986 ).

Philolexian also hosts a Croquet Tea, the Annual Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest

Elizabeth McGovern, Val Kilmer and Tom Hulce also star.

Guilt-ridden that once again he's interfered with Eiko's family and also endangered Ken, Kilmer stays in Tokyo.

Kilmer also has significant investment in various sports-related entities, including Insight Sports Ltd, which is a leading sports media company involved in the creation, production and broadcasting, on all platforms, of sports and related lifestyle content.

Szarabajka has also contributed his voice to several audio books, notably " Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates " by Tom Robbins, for which he won the 2001 Audie Award for Best Fiction, unabridged, Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz, several roles in a Grammy nominated audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton, Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wild Side, and the much lauded The Mark of Zorro opposite Val Kilmer.

As the citation from poet Joyce Kilmer illustrates, this unit is also the original owner of " Fighting Irish " nickname, which the University of Notre Dame inherited via chaplains who served with the unit during the Civil War.

Kilmer had the same kind of singing voice as Morrison and to convince Stone that he was right for the role, spent several thousand of his own dollars and made his own eight-minute video, singing and looking like Morrison at various stages of his life.

To prepare for the role, Kilmer lost weight and spent six months rehearsing Doors songs every day.

They watched hours of concert footage before working with Kilmer.

In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, and soon after made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer.

Washington was led by 33-year old quarterback Billy Kilmer, who completed 120 out of 225 passes for 1, 648 yards and a league leading 19 touchdowns during the regular season, with only 11 interceptions, giving him an NFL best 84. 8 passer rating.

Kilmer had started the first three games of the season, was replaced in game four by 38-year-old Sonny Jurgensen, then replaced Jurgensen when he was lost for the season with an Achilles tendon injury.

After a second-down screen pass to Harraway fell incomplete, left tackle Manny Fernandez sacked Kilmer on third down for a loss of eight yards, and Washington's drive ended with no points after kicker Curt Knight's ensuing 32-yard field goal attempt was wide right.

Kilmer completed six more passes then Griese, but finished the game with just 16 more total passing yards and was intercepted three times.

Val Kilmer recorded the voice for the new KITT ( Knight Industries Three Thousand ) Mustang, after Will Arnett, who initially won the role, was asked to withdraw by General Motors due to his prior advertising agreements with them.

Acoli then drove the car ( a white Pontiac LeMans with Vermont license plates )— which contained Assata Shakur, who was wounded, and Zayd Shakur, who was dead or dying — down the road at milepost 78 across from Service Area 8-N ( the Joyce Kilmer Service Area ), where Assata Shakur was apprehended.

Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner on the New Mexico border with Tombstone's Arizona ; the poet Joyce Kilmer is a second cousin of Kilmer's.

Also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled " My Edens After Burns ", that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer.

During his years at the Grammar School, Kilmer was editor-in-chief of the school's paper, the Argo and loved the classics but had difficulty with Greek.

This was a job at which one would ordinarily earn ten to twelve dollars a week, but Kilmer attacked the task with such vigor and speed that it was soon thought wisest to put him on a regular salary.

In 1916 and 1917, before the American entry into World War I, Kilmer would publish four books: The Circus and Other Essays ( 1916 ), a series of interviews with literary personages entitled Literature in the Making ( 1917 ), Main Street and Other Poems ( 1917 ), and Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic Poets ( 1917 ).

In August, Kilmer was assigned as a statistician with the U. S. 69th Infantry Regiment ( better known as the " Fighting 69th " and later re-designated the 165th Infantry Regiment ), of the 42nd " Rainbow " Division, and quickly rose to the rank of sergeant.

Before his departure, Kilmer had contracted with publishers to write a book about the war, deciding upon the title Here and There with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth.

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Willow is a 1988 American fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, produced and with a story by George Lucas, and starring Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, and Billy Barty.

In 1996 she co-starred in The Island of Dr Moreau with Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer and David Thewlis.

She then starred with Val Kilmer in Red Planet for Warner Bros. She next appeared in Miramax's Oscar-nominated film, Chocolat.

He directed Batman Forever ( 1995 ), replacing Michael Keaton with Val Kilmer ; the film would go on to score the highest-grossing opening weekend of 1995, and would finish as the second highest-grossing film of the year.

Her next high profile role was that of flight instructor, Charlie, in the 1986 fighter-pilot film Top Gun with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.

In 2004, Boyd faced his first serious test in the form of state representative Bev Kilmer, but Boyd turned back this challenge fairly easily, taking 62 percent of the vote even as George W. Bush carried the district with 54 percent of the vote.

The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with an ensemble cast featuring Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, and Tom Sizemore.