At 75, Kurt Russell Shares The Untold Truth About Val Kilmer

Sitting inside a secure vault in Kurt Russell’s private residence is a legally binding deed to a single, desolate acre of Arizona dirt. It is an actual, physical acre of land situated directly on a high ridge, offering an unobstructed, panoramic view looking down upon Boot Hill, the legendary, blood-soaked cemetery in Tombstone where the most violent outlaws and lawmen of the American Old West are buried in shallow graves. The deed was quietly handed to him in 1993 by an actor the entire entertainment industry had branded as an impossible, arrogant nightmare. For more than three decades, Russell has fiercely refused to let that piece of paper go. He does not hold onto it because of its real estate value. He holds onto it because the man who gave it to him is gone, and that barren patch of desert is one of the final, tangible tethers to a profoundly misunderstood genius.