After Val Kilmer’s “Doc” Holliday gets in a Latin debate with John Ringo in 1993’s Tombstone, Ringo whips out his pistol and launches into a dazzling display of gun twirls. Holliday responds by hooking his finger through the handle of his silver cup (above) and duplicating Ringo’s routine, not with his gun, but with his cup. The room explodes in laughter. He has successfully defused the tense duel between the two. dpc hol


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