Posted on 01/21/2009 8:57:07 PM PST by RatsDawg
Actor Val Kilmer says he is strongly considering a run for governor of New Mexico in 2011 when term limits force Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson out after 12 years.
Reports that Kilmer is serious about making a bid for his home state’s highest office have been circulating for months.
In November, Kilmer told the New York Post, "There's sort of a rumor around that I'm maybe thinking about running to be governor of New Mexico? Well, it's sort of true. It's been my home for 25 years. I really love my state. Poor, hardworking, decent people — Native Americans, carpenters, artists, expats mixed in with hundreds of the world's smartest physicists at Los Alamos. I've always thought of myself as functioning as a candidate for them.”
At the Huffington Post inaugural party for President Barack Obama Monday, Kilmer again confirmed he is interested in the governorship and said Democratic Party officials have approached him to do so, but he did not name them.
“Actually, they’ve asked me to run for governor,” he tells The Hill. “People seem to want me to.”
Richardson supports Kilmer’s bid to replace him. In September, he told Starpulse.com, "I like the idea. Val Kilmer is a New Mexican, he was Batman. You know there have been successful actors going into politics. I haven't talked to him about it, I don't know how serious he is, but you know if he jumps in a race he's got name ID, so it can't be discounted."
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He has strapped on the feedbag, it would seem.
Spartan, yes! Very slept on... solid film
The Saint was fun too, for whatever that’s worth
“I loved him in Spartan, one of my favorite underrated movies. He was also good in Heat. Stick to acting, Val.”
I think you and me are the only ones to have seen it. LOL!
I liked it as well. I like espionage movies that are gritty and realistic. Not some cheese puff crap. You know a movie is good when the good guys are dropping like flies. That is what makes “24” so good for the first few episodes.
He’ll always be Doc Holiday to me.
One hundred percent agreed. Landau killed in that role.
The first time I saw Tombstone (saw it three times at the theater when it came out and since have seen it so often I have the script memorized; I don't even know why I bother watching, but I do) my first impression was of Kilmer's overacting and dramatizing (and he was a sh*tty horseman compared to Kurt, Ike, Sam Elliott, Texas Jack, and Creek J.). Everybody oozed over Kilmer, but the bigger players who stood out most for me (out of a fantastic cast ... I mean, Billy Bob Thornton was perfect!) were Powers Booth as Curly Bill ... and Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo (now there's a deserving Oscar), and a complete display of Kurt Russel's power acting -- the guy is the Miles Davis of acting. Understated and eloquent. He says more with one expression that most actors can say in 30 seconds of dialogue.
In retrospect, I think that it was the chemistry of Kilmer with Russell, and it worked perfect. But for a real Doc Holliday, the best portrayal, I still *ducking* think Dennis Quaid put it down in the otherwise pretty lousy Costner "Wyatt Earp."
And for what it's worth, I don't think Val Kilmer would be my huckleberry in a political contest.
I don’t mean to make you feel even more unhip, but MST3000 has been off the air since 1999. That is about a decade now. LOL!
Kilmer was at Obama’s inauguration. Looks like another election we’re going to have to get involved in. Not no, but hell no. If he’s an Obamanite, he can forget about it.
“Val Kilmer was bad though. I never say the Clooney ones, so you’re probably right. But Val was purdy bad.
Christian Slater and the pro-Bush message of the newest movie are the jams!”
Christian Bale
I’ve also got to put in a good word for the guy who played Ike, I think his name is Stephen Lang. His Ike was so real and right, so believable, and he looks like a heck of a horseman to boot. Like a lot of great acting in Tombstone, the part was overshadowed (in a good way) by Kilmer.
But Christian Bale -- he was just hands-down the best. Perfect. The real Batman. The right guy. I hope I see him more in other things.
“Nope. The worst Batman is still Clooney. Hands down.”
I agree. Michael Keaton was better in that it seemed as if he got the whole dark secretive side down.
The clooney ones seemed like they were tailored more for gays and lesbians than any sort of action adventure movie goers.
Well, this makes sense because as everyone knows, professionally pretending to be someone you’re not is excellent preparation for politics.
If you haven't seen the George Looney fiasco, please spare yourself the agony and don't even think about it. I made the mistake of going to the theater to watch it. It was so bad that I almost wanted to cry.
Oh well, I’ve always been out of the loop on popular culture, generally on purpose :) I was born out of my time!
Watch him in ‘The Machinist’. You’ll actually see less of him there.
I liked him as Doc Holiday. I think to my wife, he’ll always be Mad Mardigan.
“I’m afraid I didn’t as I stopped watching Fox, or almost any television anymore.”
I stopped watching Fox too. I refuse to watch any of the network news offerings since they’re all in the bag for 0bama.
I stick to mostly the History and Discovery channels with an occaasional side track over to one of these retro channels to catch 12 O’Clock High, Rat Patrol, Combat!, Get Smart, McHale’s Navy, and other classic shows.
I watched TCM until they started the Black History Month baloney. I don’t watch much of anything, but I have History international on right now in the background. It’s a repeat of the show about the antichrist, full of the usual sly sneers at fundamentalist Christians.
Thanks for the tip -- will do.
Was it you who also mentioned that The Saint was "fun"?
I'm game for trying to watch almost anything once. If I don't like it after the first 10 or 15 minutes, I turn it off.
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