Val Kilmer, channeling Mark Twain, will be in Branson this month
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BRANSON NEWS: Val Kilmer is shown in this 2011 photograph in costume as the American author Mark Twain. Kilmer will be in Branson Sept. 29 for a screening of his one-man film about Twain. He’ll introduce the movie and take questions from the audience afterward.(Photo: Lewis Jacobs, Still Photographer, 2011)It won’t be Val Kilmer’s first trip to Branson when the “Top Gun” actor visits late this month, but it will be his first time in the 65616 when American author Mark Twain is at the center of the agenda.Kilmer is visiting Sept. 29 for a screening of “Cinema Twain,” his 90-minute one-man play captured on film. It features Kilmer fully costumed, the spitting image of the iconic Missouri-born writer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.Much of the script is pure Twain, Kilmer has said, interpreted in such a way that the century-old lines read like something from today’s world. When “Cinema Twain” premiered last year, a reviewer with Salon wrote, “I can’t think of any screening in recent memory when the people around me seemed to enjoy themselves as much as they did there.”By phone from California, Kilmer told the News-Leader on Tuesday that he’s always loved Twain.”He’s about the funniest American who ever lived,” Kilmer said.An undated portrait of American author Mark Twain first published by the Associated Press in 1935 on the 100th anniversary of Twain’s birth in Missouri. (Photo: Associated Press)Kilmer made the focus of his film the feud between Twain and Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church denomination.”She was the woman he loved to hate,” he said.In his autobiography, Twain denounced Eddy as only Samuel Clemens could:There isn’t anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can’t believe it. At this very day there are thousands …
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