Val Kilmer attends "The Ghost & the Darkness" Hollywood premiere in 1996. The "Top Gun" star died Tuesday at age 65. Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images ...

Of all the reboots that have hit Hollywood in the past decade, nothing has had the impact of Top Gun: Maverick. The 36-year wait felt insignificant as the sequel captured the magnificence and awe ...

Kilmer, tall, handsome, "chronically eccentric" in the words of his friend Robert Downey Jr., was one of those peculiar figures in Hollywood. A star, but not a super star.

On-screen, he embodied Iceman, the Caped Crusader, Doc Holliday and the Lizard King. Off screen, Val Kilmer developed a reputation over his four decades in Hollywood for being difficult, enigmatic ...