Val Kilmer Passes Away, Leaving Behind a Legendary Career & Admirers Far and Wide

“I’m your huckleberry.”

In 1993, director George Cosmatos’ Tombstone came out, starring Kurt Russell as the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as his drunken, decidedly decent and invaluable partner Doc Holliday. By then, Kilmer was already a legend, having played Ice Man, the ying to Maverick (Tom Cruise, of course)’s yang in Tony Scott’s 1986 film Top Gun, and Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors, one of those roles where it was truly impossible to imagine another actor on the planet being more perfectly positioned to inhabit a character,...