Faster horses said:
Val Kilmer is a jerk in real life?
I thought HE stole Tombstone away from everyone else. He was very good in that movie, but I haven't seen him in anything else that I thought he was that good in.
What makes him a jerk? Just curious, just curious; but I really do want to know. I hate it when people like him aren't good folks.
I remember a woman writing in to Dear Abby and she talked about living in Hollywood and being disfigured. She worked in a restaurant the stars frequented and many of them were rude to her. She mentioned two very good people. John Travolta and Sylvester Sallone. That rather suprised me...though I don't know why.
Our horse trainer friend, Dave, that was just here from Texas has ran into some celebrities. He ropes with George Strait, says he is always a good guy; took Garth Brooks on a horseback tour of some property that Garth wanted to look at. At first he didn't know who Garth Brooks was as Garth came walking over to him at a horse doings and asked if he could borrow/rent a horse to look at the nearby property. Dave said he had a cap on and Dave didn't recognize him. Pretty soon Garth Brooks said, "you don't recognize me do you?" (I bet he doesn't get to say that much. :wink: ). Anyway, Dave happened to have a horse there he could ride and took him around. Said Garth was great and paid him well, even though he didn't charge him. And he had supper with Robert Duvall. Just a down-home country boy that rides hunters and jumpers and they talked horses.
I enjoyed the insight he provided and thought you would too. The real people being the stardon are intriguing to me. Like someone mentioned Buck Owens and how he acted in real life; you just never know.
When they filmed "Thunderheart" down near here, one of my friends was near the filming quite often. She said that Sam Sheperd came to the local team ropings and roped and was a great guy, but that Val was a whiney stuck on himself, little brat. Thats all I know, but I heard the same from several other sources. I don't usually pay attention when someone sez' someone else is a pain or whatever, as I figure that anyone can be having a bad day, but when you get the same report form several people, I start to think maybe they are right.
With that being said, I think being famous can be a real pain. Sure they are making the big bucks, but they give up a lot in their persnal life. But they shouldn't be held to higher standards than anyone else.
Shoot, I thought everyone had heard Val was a pain to work with and around. Kind of like Iyn Tyson.
But then, even us jerks need friends and people who'll talk to us. :wink:
And SOMEBODY has to be a jerk!
I was around Red Stegel a little bit one time and he came off very cold and aloof. I later visited with a friend of his and she told me he is a nice, wonderful man. Guess he was having some troubles in life at the time I was around him, so since then I try real hard not to make snap judgements about folks. If they aren't any fun to hang around with, I just figure they have some problem and let it go at that.