![]() ![]() ![]() That’s mere rambling about a side issue in this book. It’s pretty clear to me from these memoirs who the god of Christian Science really is.īut I digress. In fact, he only mentions God a handful of times in his discussions of the basis for his spirituality, and Jesus maybe twice? On the flip side, he mentions Mary Baker Eddy about 50 times (no joke), and praises her writings way more than Scripture. Val Kilmer is a lifelong Christian Scientist (he only briefly hints at its reputation as being an oddball cult that doesn’t believe in hospitals), a faith that expresses itself best in what he calls “divine love.” In fact it’s this love that he emphasizes so often that makes me think that his religion is nothing more than a spiritualized form of humanism: if everyone is God’s children and connected in spirit, and if the point of it all is that we let love rule, then it’s a powerfully works-based and others-focused proof of divine acceptance rather than a faith at all, and therefore highly humanistic. It’s a passionate book filled with love and, surprisingly, spirituality. ![]() Throughout his memoir, he shares not only personal stories but also personal messages to the people he’s loved and sometimes hurt. He discusses his early romance with Cher and Winningham herself, as well as his eventual marriage to, family with, and divorce from co-star Joanna Whalley, and a later fling with Carly Simon. The production, as it turns out, was excellent, handled by Will Forte (briefly), George Newbern (mostly), and Mare Winningham (poetically).Īs a memoir, this book traces Kilmer’s memories of upbringing and entrance into theater before he landed some breakout roles in movies I’ve never seen. Was it a contractual error or intentional? Are he and Kilmer great friends in real life? Hard to say, but clearly, Val himself couldn’t record his own story by voice, since his battle with throat cancer has left his tongue oversized and his voice seriously gravely and slurred. I listened to it on audio through the Libby app, and while I was happy with the production, I wasn’t quite sure why Will Forte read only like three of the many chapters. I don’t often read books by or about celebrities (the most recent being Confessions of a Prairie B*tch by Nellie from The Little House on the Prairie), but this one promised both to dredge up some happy memories and to answer some of my unimportant questions-I felt like I had to give it a go. When my two buds and I first moved overseas, one of them often summarized our experiences by singing Top Gun‘s theme song, bursting out at inopportune moments: “Fly in-to the DAN-ger zone!” We also collectively held an odd fascination for the movie Willow during that first year, and of course, the only thing these two wildly different movies have in common is their ruggedly handsome (so the ladies say) supporting actor, Val Kilmer. ![]()
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