In Memory of Madmartigan This year, Treat requested 1988's Willow as her birthday flick, and we voted that it Lives Up. Unfortunately, the day after we recorded our episode, actor Val Kilmer passed away. We'd like to use this blog post to highlight his contributions to Willow. For people our age, Willow introduced us to Val Kilmer. Top billed over Warwick Davis, he joined this cast after his slick performance in Top Gun (which people our age were too young to see in the theaters. Most of us saw him in Willow first). If it felt like a gamble to go from playing the coolest looking guy at the Top Gun academy to acting in a kids' flick where the script calls for getting turned into a pig... well, we're glad Val Kilmer took that risk. He made this movie so much fun. Val Kilmer's character, Madmartigan, starts the film as a feral creature in a cage. Treat wrote in her show notes: "Madmartigan's teeth have entered the chat." Flossing. Works wonders. In ab...
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