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Val Kilmer lambasted by UK and USA press for getting older

By M&C News Aug 10, 2006, 1:23 GMT

Val Kilmer    Glenn Harris / Photorazzi

Val Kilmer Glenn Harris / Photorazzi

Poor Val Kilmer.

Just wrapping a brutal (M&C heard directly from the Production office moles in N.M) mini series Comanche Moon shot in sweltering New Mexico, the poor guy has his picture plastered all over the UK Daily Mail website and most certainly the next Star magazine pictorial exposé on “weight gain winners and losers” Summer wrap up issue.

Even Defamer.com jumped on Val’s middle-aged bandwagon: “Val Kilmer in the Malibu Starbucks this morning (8/8). He was with a vaguely recognizable, vaguely pretty woman and a young girl. He was also wearing an authentic cowboy hat. I text messaged my girlfriend because she gets all excited about this stuff and she wrote back "Is he fat?" Now that she mentions it, he was looking a little husky....”

The Brits are no kinder.  “Val Kilmer goes from Batman to fatman” the UK Daily Mail headline reads.

The Daily Mail reports despite his stud-ly pedigree in the conquests of various profile, attractive women, Kilmer’s exposed belly “where a six pack once rippled”  now looks more like “a rather large beer belly.”

The Daily Mail goes on to describe The Salton Sea’s leading man as he swam near his home in Malibu.  Castigating the Top Gun badass for not looking exactly as he did eleven years prior.

In 1991, Kilmer was said to have been peaking physically playing Jim Morrison in The Doors.

Kilmer is divorced from the stunning British actress, Joanne Whalley, who dazzled American audiences as Christine Keeler in Scandal, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, about the infamous Profumo affair in England.  They met on the set of movie, Willow. Married in 1988, they have two children.

Despite his physique expansion-Kilmer’s acting “dance card” is filled up.



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JevayAug 11th, 2006 - 17:53:18

Hey, how would you like it if I were to note every bite of food you eat, every bad haircut, every little ounce you gain or loose, and plaster it all over the web! Take a moment.... How boring.. Time to move on folks. Put your energy into something that's worth it. Val has donated his hard earned cash to people you may even know.. He has also entertained many sad lives throughout his lifetime.. Hey, I would marry him in a heartbeat. He's got it really going on!!

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sharon, njAug 15th, 2006 - 05:16:35

Come on, get off vals back, what is wrong with you people that call themselves critcs. You have nothing better to do with you time, so lets get kilmer day, hm, what nasty thing can we think of, oh I know on the beach, vals belly hanging over his shorts, Get a life, this man you cont. bash at is a hell of a better person then you, who writes such dribble. It hurts my heart, to see so many of you cont. making money to critize val, all actors get older, i think he's getting better. one thing no one thinks about is how many times val has changed his apperence for movies. Months best, val did alexander,he had to but on at least 150 lbs.or more to look like the king philip. and at this time in life, its much harder for him to loose it, just like everyone else. So get a job , pick on someone else for a change its getting boring. It ok val has so many great fans, and they would do anything for him.
your just full of hot air! It makes me angry, so here i speak up for val. Go figure, SP,NJ

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MichaelMar 3rd, 2008 - 01:31:41

*This is one of many message I wrote about Val which I have on file ready for whenever they're needed - usually when these idiotic 'fat, old, or jerk' articles crop up.



****Hey Guys

Please don't believe the lies the media and mean-spirited haters say about Val.


He is NOT fat or old! From recent photos of I've seen, he really looks great! He has lost none of the boyish charm and stunning good looks of his heyday. The beauty of Val's heart and soul outweight any horrid (and untrue) criticism anyone can dish out about Val's looks, and I could only wish to look like him, and I'm 21 years younger!

More than that, he is not the 'jerk' that the media would have you believe.

Val really is a wonderful person who has been recently very kind to me - and we've not even met (as I'm from Australia but we have become friends online), therefore it is highly unlikely that he goes around being rude to people he does meet. He simply is not that kind of person.

Here is a wonderful story I read about Val Kilmer which has far more truth, heart, and soul than some of the horrid things I've been reading about him on the Internet the last few days, so I thought I would share the link. It's not a recent story, and it's kind of long and the photos are copyright to the site, so I'll just post the link for you all. The story is all about how a fan took her six year old son, Derek, to see Val and how Val was sweet and gracious, and extremely mischievous (in a funny and sweet way). This is how I will choose to see Val in my mind.

Here's an extract:

****Derek was pretty excited as you might imagine, meeting a celebrity is a big deal for adults, let alone a little boy. After stories and hugs and pictures were taken, Derek left with the biggest grin from ear to ear. He couldn't stop talking about the wonderful time he had meeting Val and finding out that the man on the screen was the nicest person. Maybe Val Kilmer is still a kid at heart himself, but what ever the reason, he loves children. I will always remember how patient he was with Derek, generous with his time, and very thoughtful to make sure a little boy had an experience he will always treasure.****


Also, in more recent times, Val Kilmer's humanitarian work has taken on a musical direction. He is not only an excellent actor, but also a superlative singer-songwriter whose brilliant music deserves to be heard. The proceeds from the sale of the CDs and Val's poetry book 'Jack's Gandhi' have been going to Val's charities.

One such cause that Val has raised money for at these events (which I was unable to attend for obvious geographical reasons) is for the families of police officers who were killed in the September 11th disaster. Val is also committed to helping the Wildlife Centre through proceeds of his music.

Also, Val is a committed member of the V-Day organisation which seeks ways to end the violence against women and girls that pervades our society.


Val Kilmer regularly donates his own money to these charities, so he is not simply 'after fans' money to further his agenda' as people are accusing him of - he's organised a group of loyal fans who wish to contribute and do good for the world and who might not have the resources to help out in other ways, so collectively, we work together, and that is why Val asks for money - not because he needs or wants it himself, but because he knows many of us wish to help him and this is his way of enabling us to do that.

Cheers, Michael****

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