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Fifty years ago, Harvard’s attorney tried to stop institutional development on Centre Street at the West Roxbury/Jamaica Plain/Roslindale border. When Joyce Kilmer Park and its nine acres of open space were sold for a new institutional facility in 1956, Harvard’s attorney argued that institutional development at the site would encroach on open space at the Arboretum’s adjacent parcel...
That film, Kilmer believes, could be the start of his new business model. He has talked to Downey about teaming up on more comedies, like an edgier Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. "I knew Tom Hanks. We were starting in comedies around the same time," he says, sipping his tea at the bar at the Hotel Bel-Air and recalling his mid-'80s roles in Top Secret! and Real Genius. "Tom Hanks was very smart. He made several of the same kind of films in a row. Sweet films: Big, Sleepless in Seattle. So you thought...
...What Kilmer has become known for is being difficult to work with. Every interviewer is told by his publicist not to bring that up, and 10 minutes into every interview, Kilmer himself brings it up. As part of his new business plan, the usually press-averse Kilmer is going on the offensive to repair his image, which he says has been created by the media because of the eccentric roles he has taken, the fact that he is a Method actor or because he lives far from Hollywood on a 6,000-acre ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., with more...
...Still, Kilmer admits that he has mellowed since The Doors in 1991, when Oliver Stone, of all people, said he was pushy. Stone, however, has said he enjoyed working with him in last year's Alexander. "Now I know more about directing," says Kilmer, who--of course--wants to make his own films. "Now I know if the pressure is coming up not to ask the same question nine times like I used to." Kiss Kiss's Black says Kilmer was an asset, even if he was sometimes weird, calling the director at home in strange voices, which Black eventually...
...still weirdness. As much as Kilmer still looks like a movie star--glowing skin, giant teeth, deep green eyes and a velvet Paul Smith suit over a floral-print Paul Smith shirt--the main thing you notice about him is, in fact, his weirdness, although it's of a cool variety. This interview was postponed three days so he could jet to Russia to go to a party with his friend Mikhail Gorbachev, and then an extra two days so he could take a part in a Polish art film. It seems as if his life is in some constant...