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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...
...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...
...Radio Freak C.W. McCall (writer of the 1976 bestselling single Convoy) and Actor Kris Kristofferson share the same handle: "Rubber Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even...
...heightened by the character of those involved. Barb, Jon and Kris have earned the love of millions of Americans through their regular appearances in the "People" sections of Time and Newsweek, as well as in more prurient publications. People Magazine has featured all of them. In one issue, Kristofferson, a former Rhodes Scholar and Army Captain, confessed that just as in the movie, the pressure of show business drove him to drugs and drink. But he says that with the help of his good woman, he has kicked it all and there will be no car crashes. Kristofferson also posed...