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...same. Billy Clyde Puckett (Burt Reynolds) is still a natively shrewd running back with a gift for putting on people who think they're smarter than he is because they don't talk in a Southwest Conference drawl. His roommate and lifelong good buddy, Shake Tiller (Kris Kristofferson), is still a sticky-fingered end and an earnest naïf. They are still involved, more as pals than as lovers (though that, in time, develops) with Barbara Jane Bookman (Jill Clayburgh). She is a version of that most delicious of Hemingway's conceits-the intelligent and entirely...
Throughout their four-year marriage, Kris and Rita have led a not-so-private life that would have a soap scenarist sudsing with envy. Can Kris deal with his drinking? Can Rita deal with his drinking? Can she accept his fame as a songwriter, singer and movie actor? Is she furious because he restaged some torrid love scenes from the film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea with Actress Sarah Miles for a Playboy photographer? What's this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success...
...problems. Once out there in the spotlight, Kris and Rita behaved like a couple of newlyweds having an easy, relaxed time with their friends. That was essentially the case. A year ago, when he last played Los Angeles, he was drinking and down enough to be thoroughly believable as he sang his own Help Me Make It Through the Night. Now, sober as a choirboy (he has been on the wagon since last September), he held Rita's hand, whispered to her and blended his deep, friendly baritone with her voice of amber and honey. The capacity crowd...
...opinion than many. He has at various times been a short-story writer, Golden Gloves boxer, top-ranked college football player, bartender, janitor, helicopter pilot, Army captain and scholar. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs like The Silver-Tongued Devil, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down and Me and Bobby McGee...
Right now Kris is grooving on Rita's Higher and Higher fame. No longer are the marquees likely to read KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, FEATURING RITA COOLIDGE. Even though he has been through it all himself-the crowds, the lights, the adulation-he knows as well as anyone when to seize an advantage. Says he: "Because Rita has a hit, it would be crazy not to go out now. It is not the time to lag behind. It is the time to work...