Word: kristofferson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several months in 1967 she lived with "Country Joe" Macdonald and was completely free of drugs. But her well-publicized romances with Joe Namath and Kris Kristofferson lasted respectively one night and a few weeks. (On hearing that Namath was at one of her concerts, she bawled...
...home with him." "Hi, Mrs. Blume," said the work, sulking against the bedroom door, and Nina walked out. There was a quick, acrimonious divorce. Blume reveled briefly in the freedoms of bachelorhood, but turned possessive and desperate when Nina started keeping company with an itinerant musician named Elmo (Kris Kristofferson). Blume, of course, did everything he could to bust them up and reinstate himself...
George Segal's Blume is a dexterous performance driven by demons, Kristofferson's Elmo relaxed and appealing. Besides a great deal of what seems like effortless ability, Kristofferson has vast charm and the sort of presence that makes you look forward to his every appearance. He is, naturally and winningly, what so many others strain so hard to be: a star. Susan Anspach, as Nina, is musky and alluring and, even more important, a splendid actress. Hers is the most carefully detailed, most complex and moving re-creation of a woman that has been seen in an American...
Billy (easily and exceptionally well acted by Kris Kristofferson) has his chance at settling down, building a respectable life working for the cattle interests. Instead, he chooses to run free with his friends (one of whom is played by an appropriately enigmatic Bob Dylan, who also provides some good music). Garrett (James Coburn), older, feeling threatened by age, takes a lawman's job. The marshal's badge makes him answerable to the ranchers and the politicians in Santa Fe. It is their star, their job, and they want Billy out of the way. Garrett rides down...
...television is playing on the table, with the sound turned was down Kris Kristofferson and some long-haired rock musicians are playing on the Flip Wilson show TV didn't used to be like this: you rarely saw long-haired musician and there were some bands who were never on TV the good ones. I was the type who got excited the first time Jefferson Airplane played Ed Sullivan with Grace slick in blackface. But I was a little sorry too. You couldn't hear the music right over TV; and you guessed they just did it for money...