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Val Kilmer has played everyone from Batman to Jim Morrison, from the Saint to Doc Holliday, from the voice of the car KITT in the remake of “Knight Rider” to the voice of God in the animated “Prince of Egypt,” in the course of his film career.
Now, he’s making himself over into Mark Twain.
“Citizen Twain,” a one-man show that Kilmer wrote, directed and stars in, will be presented in what his publicists call “a limited two-weekend run” at that grand palace of live theatre – the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
We are not making that up.
Actually, to judge by the photographs we’ve seen, Kilmer transforms himself into a pretty accurate approximation of Mark Twain.
And Kilmer has been working for several years on a film project titled “Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy,” which imagines what might have happened if the founder of Christian Science had welcomed into her home the author of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” – who satirized Eddy and her philosophy publicly, but was himself obsessed with the same ideas of life and death, mind and body, illusion and reality.
A 10-minute “trailer” for this proposed film – that will give you a sense of how Kilmer might portray Twain – is here:
And if you're going to be visiting Los Angeles cemeteries in the next week or so, you can get tickets to Kilmer's show
here.
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