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Mark Twain, meanwhile, is one of the guiding forces in his life.
Kilmer makes artwork of Twain.
He runs a charity TwainMania devoted to teaching Twain to students.
He has played Twain in a traveling one-man show turned film presentation calledCinema Twain.
Kilmer was going to debut the animated film at South by Southwest this year before the festival was canceled.
In the 1993 movieTombstone,Kilmer played Doc Holliday and said the line, Im your Huckleberry.
The jokes dont really translate.
In 2011, Kilmer played Twain in a film adaptation ofTom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn,shot in Bulgaria.
The film wasnt released until 2014, when it had a very limited theatrical run.
Vultureinterviewed Kilmer in 2017, when he broughtCinema Twainto New York.
In the interview, he called Twains work flat-out stand-up comedy.
Whats at the core of Twains soul?
What does it mean to be an American?
What does it mean to be a real artist?
He perhaps did as much as President Lincoln did to confront racism in our lives.
We owe him a solemn debt.
And he did it through love, and compassion, and art.
So, you bet he would have something loud to say about cutting the NEA.
And rock and roll changed the face of America and changed the rest of the world.
And I think Mark Twains impact about race and greed is equal, in that kind of comparison.
Which brings us to Kilmer in 2020.
The quote is attributed, of course, to Mark Twain.
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