Val Kilmer, the actor known for his roles in films like Top Gun and Batman Forever, died at age 65 in Los Angeles. He had been battling throat cancer and passed away due to pneumonia. His career ...

He appeared in an endlessly touring stage show as Mark Twain. He had a reputation for being prickly ... the movie about his life is both heartbreaking and uplifting. Below is a part of a poem that he ...

Although he was strikingly handsome, actor Val Kilmer never relied on his looks; instead, he portrayed characters that were ...

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Racist poems were published about the president and ... That was the case with Napoleon, Beethoven, Mark Twain, Andrew Johnson and William Butler Yeats, to name a few. In Abigail, Adams had ...

Welcome to Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain’s boyhood home might get top billing on the ... nestled in this charming river town that’s famous for its literary connections but should be equally ...

Carson City, Nevada’s capital, is a short drive away with its own historical attractions and museums. Virginia City, the famous silver mining boomtown, makes for a fascinating day trip that ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute. By Jason Zinoman Jason Zinoman watched the ceremony at the ...

He was 65. Connecticut’s Mark Twain House and Museum honored Kilmer with a post and photo highlighting his love for Mark Twain. “The Mark Twain House & Museum mourns the passing of Val Kilmer ...

WASHINGTON — Conan O'Brien took home the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, where the spotlight was just as much on the Kennedy Center, where he accepted the prize, as the Emmy ...