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Today, however, country is taking on a new sound, and a new diversity and message as well. Partly that is due to the influence of rock, partly to the visible softening of the once strong accents of American regionalization. Says Kris Kristofferson, 37, the former Rhodes scholar who is now a leader of country's progressive wing: "There's really more honesty and less bullshit in today's music than ever before...
Married. Kris Kristofferson, 36, country music composer (Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down), singer, movie actor (Cisco Pike, Blume in Love) and former Rhodes scholar; and Rita Coolidge, 28, smoky-voiced blues singer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif...
...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...
...engaged" to Seth Morgan, a college student half a dozen years her junior, and a member of a socially prominent New York family. She claimed no man could ever give her the rush she felt from a wall of applause. A few weeks before her death she told Kristofferson she was working on a new tune. "I'm gonna call it," she confided, "I Just Made Love to 25,000 People But I'm Goin' Home Alone...
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...