He did a Mark Twain one-man show.

https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...Gg&oe=67F7CE3E

I watched a couple of YouTube videos about the Mark Twain thing. It looks really interesting. Couldn't find the full performance, though.

Val also had a percieved mercurial personality to some because he was a "space cadet" being a creative that some didn't get specifically directors.

Real Genius was my first exposure to him. Loved him and his big personality.

I even got a pair of bunny slippers and "I love nuclear waste" T shirt back in the late 80's. He was just my type of smart ass....

I Aced this!!!!!!!!

I really, REALLY need to see this.

Also want to watch top secret again, but pretty sure I haven't since it was in the theaters and I was (looking it up) 14. I may not think much of it anymore, but I'm a sucker for the slapstick comedies (airplane, naked gun, blazing Saddles, etc).

It's definitely worth a $4 rental on Amazon Prime. Fantastic, hilarious movie. And according to my best friend, who has a physics PhD, very accurate in terms of what life in graduate school is like.

And keep watching the end credits until the picture fades out. :)