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Val Kilmer Death: Cher Pays Tribute, Calls Him ‘Pain in the Ass’

Coming Soon 03 Apr 2025
... ass, GREAT FRIEND.” The icon also praised his exceptional talent, highlighting his performance as Mark Twain, seemingly in Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014) and in the play Citizen Twain (2016).
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Kurt Russell reveals dark gift that Val Kilmer gave him after filming ‘Tombstone’ in resurfaced interview

New York Post 02 Apr 2025
Kilmer wrote in his memoir that he “entitled this tome I’m Your Huckleberry for many reasons. I like the unintentional echo of Huckleberry Finn, which is my favorite novel and features my favorite character.
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Cher pays tribute to ex Val Kilmer following sudden death

The News International 02 Apr 2025
Cher continued, "U Were Funny, crazy, pain in the ass, GREAT FRIEND, kids [love] U," adding that Kilmer was "brilliant" in his role of Mark Twain, whom he played in 2014's Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as well as the 2016's one-man play Mark Twain ... .
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Val Kilmer, Batman Forever and Top Gun Star, Dead at 65

New York Magazine 02 Apr 2025
Photo. Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic ... Moreau ... He later played Twain in the 2014 film Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and had plans to make and star in his own film exploring Twain and Eddy’s relationship ... The New York Times. Related ... Batman Chins, Ranked. Tags..
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These 12 Noteworthy books by California authors made an impact in 2024

Press Telegram 02 Apr 2025
Percival Everett, the author of more than 30 books, won the National Book Award in fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” (Photo credit Michael Avedon / Courtesy of Doubleday).
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The week’s bestselling books, April 6

The Los Angeles Times 02 Apr 2025
1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday. $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press. $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time. 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... …1 ... 2 ... 3.
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Val Kilmer, film star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, dies at 65

The Mercury News 02 Apr 2025
He also appeared as Twain in a 2014 film adaptation of Twain’s work, “Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn,” and he planned to direct and star in a film he wrote about Twain and Mary Baker Eddy, the woman ...
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Texas school board defies state Republicans to strip chapters from textbooks

Raw Story 02 Apr 2025
She didn’t have to ... Blasingame disputes the critique ... Her AP English class, a seminar about the novel “Huckleberry Finn,” steered clear of what she thinks are badly needed conversations about race, slavery and how that history impacts people today ... .
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A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material ...

ProPublica 02 Apr 2025
She didn’t have to ... First image ... Second image ... Her AP English class, a seminar about the novel “Huckleberry Finn,” steered clear of what she thinks are badly needed conversations about race, slavery and how that history impacts people today.
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Headlines in History 1965: Notre Dame undergraduates to pay $1500 per academic year

South Bend Tribune 31 Mar 2025
March 30, 1906. “Goshen, Ind., March 30 — The Goshen public library has refused to blacklist Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer,” on the theory they are unfit for readers under the age of discretion ... March 31, 1913 ... Crabill ... April 1, 1921.
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In new bestsellers, a Facebook executive’s memoir is at No. 1

Daily Press 31 Mar 2025
An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above ... 1 ... (Doubleday) A reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” shines a different light on Mark Twain’s classic, revealing new facets of Jim ... .
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Column: A conversation with a generational hero in Altadena

LA Daily News 29 Mar 2025
So, of course they tell you not to meet your heroes ... We sat agape ... (Photo by Keith Durflinger, Contributing Photographer) ... All the knowledge I’d had about slavery until then were from books, from “Huckleberry Finn” and “Little House on the Prairie.” ... .
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MILLIANS: Next on restaurant scene | The Union-Recorder

The Union-Recorder 28 Mar 2025
Ok, I have not given up on getting a Red Lobster and an Olive Garden to this town. Those were your favorites when I conducted a poll a while back. But things move slowly. Very slowly ... BBQ ... Or how about Huckleberry’s (Finn or Hound?) Breakfast and Lunch.
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The week’s bestselling books, March 30

The Los Angeles Times 26 Mar 2025
1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday. $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press ... 3. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... …1.
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