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"I can't tell you how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human being and how grateful and honoured I was when he joined Top Gun," Cruise said of Kilmer, who played his rival Ice Man in Top Gun in 1986.

In 1970, “Only the Strong Survive” was nominated for R&B song at the Grammy Awards, while Butler’s album “The Ice Man Cometh” — produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, architects of the lush Philly soul sound — received a nod for best R&B vocal performance.

Thousands of Blackberry Messenger communications obtained through wiretaps allegedly show Oseguera González conducting cartel business under handles that included “Forrest Gump,” “Ice Man” and “Billy the Kid.”

But everyone around me was like, “Ice, man, you from the hood — there’s no opportunity. You got to take it.”

We saw old men who were blessed enough to grow old — such as George Gervin, a little rounder in the waist than in his days as the “Ice Man” but still striking the pose of his famous finger roll.