Dead Pool 2025

[viper37]

Richard Chamberlain, actor. Known for Shogun and the first to play Jason Bourne, on a TV mini-séries. Died the the day before his 91st birthday.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/richard-chamberlain-dead-dies-shogun-thorn-birds-1236351970/

He was great in Shogun.  Don't remember that Jason Bourne mini-series.

[Syt]

RIP Val Kilmer, age 65.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ry5x9xz0o

Top Gun and Batman actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65

Hollywood actor Val Kilmer, known for his roles in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died aged 65.

He also starred in 1991's The Doors - playing the band's frontman Jim Morrison - plus the Western Tombstone and crime drama Heat.

Kilmer died of pneumonia on Tuesday in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes told US media. She said her father had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 but later recovered.

Tracheotomy surgery affected his voice and curtailed his acting career, but he returned to the screen to reprise his role as fighter pilot Iceman alongside Tom Cruise in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

"See ya, pal. I'm going to miss you", American actor Josh Brolin wrote alongside a picture of himself and Kilmer on Instagram.

"You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker. There's not a lot left of those", he added.

In 2021, Kilmer released a documentary chronicling the highs and lows of his life and career. Val, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, features 40 years of home recordings, including him speaking with a voice box post-cancer surgery.

Born Val Edward Kilmer on 31 December 1959, Kilmer grew up in a middle-class family in Los Angeles.

His parents were Christian Scientists, a movement to which Kilmer would adhere for the rest of his life.

Aged 17, he became the then-youngest pupil to enrol at the Julliard School, in New York, one of the world's most prestigious drama conservatories.

Kilmer had two children with his ex-wife, actress Joanne Whalley.

He'll always be Nick Rivers to me.

[Valmy]

RIP Doc Holliday.

He looked terrible these last few years so I am not surprised but still rather young to go.

[Sheilbh]

Oh RIP

This news made me sadder than I expected or is normally the way with celebrities' deaths. A lot of his films were regular watches when I was a kid.

[crazy canuck]

RIP Doc Holliday.

 

He was amazing in that role.

RIP Val, you brought a lot of enjoyment into our lives.

[Duque de Bragança]

Oh RIP

The new Top Gun movie made it clear, for those who had not followed him for as while, that he was on the end.
RIP

Oh RIP

This news made me sadder than I expected or is normally the way with celebrities' deaths. A lot of his films were regular watches when I was a kid.

Even the Island of Doctor Moreau?

RIP obviously, for Top Secret, Top Gun and even his Schumacher Batman, much better than the following one.

[Josquius]

Sooo.....JD Vance killed the Pope.

[The Brain]

It's official: you CAN die from cringe.

[Tamas]

Sooo.....JD Vance killed the Pope.

The elderly should be saved from having to meet these idiots. First Truss and the Queen, now this.

[mongers]

 

And too many days before trump, I was hoping The Pontiff would outlast him.

[Maladict]

At least he outlasted Benedict.

[DGuller]

I saw the news yesterday of the Pope meeting with JD Vance, and was surprised, because I thought he was supposed to be dying.  Turns out he was.  How awful for him that JD had to be one of the last things he saw.

[HVC]

To be fair it was his last chance to see him since Vance is going to hell and the Pope, presumably*, is not.


*many protestants presume differently

[grumbler]

I saw the news yesterday of the Pope meeting with JD Vance, and was surprised, because I thought he was supposed to be dying.  Turns out he was.  How awful for him that JD had to be one of the last things he saw.

[morbid] The Pope said, "I'm dying to get out of another meeting with JD Vance." [/morbid]

[mongers]

Sooo.....JD Vance killed the Pope.

The elderly should be saved from having to meet these idiots. First Truss and the Queen, now this.

Guys you are aware that Vance's middle name is Damien?