Word: kristofferson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replied, "We'll take it home to the kids." He nodded happily and left. A moment later, he knocked again. "What time is it?" She told him. A third knock. "Why is the phone in my room ringing?" At that, Rita rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly: Kris Kristofferson is one superstar you take exactly as he is, even if you are a newly emerged superstar named Rita Coolidge and are married...
...Kristofferson, who is 41 and nine years older than Rita, thinks of himself as world weary and is more entitled to that 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...
...Kristofferson likes to disparage his own singing ability. Says he: "Good God, anyone who sings my songs sings them better than me." In truth, he caught on quickly as a performer. Lean and bearded, he radiated both a searing sexuality and a boyish vulnerability. That combination was translated into a fast rise in movies. His first, Cisco Pike (1971), about a pop idol down on his luck, merely suggested his film potential. Several more -Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Blume in Love, Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore -followed. Last year's A Star Is Born...
...basics"-of music, mixing with the musicians, jamming a little and hearing other groups. The other day he liked a song on the radio, but had not the slightest idea what it was or who was singing it (he later learned that it was the Swedish group ABBA). Kristofferson does not like being that far out of touch. Like any pop composer, he feeds on what is going on around him. And so he looks on the tour with Rita as a time to rev up: "My circuits are almost on overload. I need a groove, any groove...
...charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes by the CB monicker "Pigpen" in Convoy. "Sam's a pain in the ass, but we all want to be part...