Word: kilmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SECRET! Captured by the East German secret police, Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer), an American rock star turned secret agent, is being tortured. This happens off-camera, but we have some idea of his suffering because one of his tormentors has been introduced as "a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post," and he has been observed, tabloid in hand, slobbering. Our worst fears are confirmed when we learn Nick has not cracked and an escalation of his agony is required. "Do you want me to bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings?" an underling asks...
...after that, salary became a bitter issue. He liked the wild Canadian game, enjoyed fielding an occasional punt and kicking it right back for a rouge (one point). But money and celebrity are attractive to him. In 1974, Theismann came home to the U.S. to fall in behind Billy Kilmer and Sonny Jurgensen with the Washington Redskins...
Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...
Those were the days of flamboyant personalities--of Sonny Jurgenson and Billy Kilmer, of Larry Brown and Charley Taylor, of coach George "The Future is Now' Allen and owner--and Washington business heavyweight--Jack Kent Cooke. Everyone in Washington knew that the again Jurgenson and the slightly younger Kilmer were embroiled in an unending feud over who was to quarterback, and over who commanded more respect from the veterans on the team. Larry Brown was somewhat of a celebrity--the night he passed the 1,000 yard mark in rushing for the season was more widely known and toasted...