Kilmer portrayed Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazanski in the 1986 “Top Gun” film starring Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. The two were rival fighter pilots who eventually became friends. The film catapulted ...

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Prefiguring Hollywood’s memorialization of Irving Thalberg, the MGM studio chief ... In keeping with the family tradition, the final Shubert scion had also produced nothing of consequence.

Francis Ford Coppola, who shot two movies in Tulsa, will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award. Diane Lane, C. Thomas ...

News reported that Cruise praised Kilmer for his knack for storytelling and compared him to producer Irving Thalberg ... he was cancer-free in 2021, his family did not share if his pneumonia ...

Director Norman Jewison's second wife "made progressive efforts to isolate and control him," his sons have alleged — leading to family drama, lawsuits in two countries and a fight over the late ...

Who was he? How did he, almost accidentally, end up in filmmaking? What makes his movies so unforgettable? K Narayanan traces ...

He was knighted, in 1980, months before his death. And he did eventually win the Irving G Thalberg award, handed out during the Oscars, for his contribution to cinema. His acceptance speech was ...