He was 88 yrs old .
RIP. I had no idea he was close to 90.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 29, 2024 10:41 PM |
Had no idea he was that old. What a gorgeous man.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 29, 2024 10:41 PM |
Wow, tough weekend. He was a good one.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 29, 2024 10:43 PM |
Damn, he was hot. He made Barbra look like a troll in A Star was Born. (Of course the Jew-fro she was sporting did not help).
May he rest in peace.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 29, 2024 10:43 PM |
It must be hard for Streisand to lose both Kristofferson and Ryan O'Neal in the past year.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
Barbra also lost James Caan last year.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
DEAD TO ME, OP!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
Blade "star"?
People.com is really reaching for relevancy.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 29, 2024 10:46 PM |
I really always respected him, Willie and Johnny for being unrepentant liberals in both times and places where it was borderline dangerous. I still tear up at him and Sinead, with him supporting her- again, at a time when it was extremely unpopular.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 29, 2024 10:47 PM |
Maggie, Kris, who’s next? I’m predicting some celebrity half their age who dies in an accident.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 29, 2024 10:47 PM |
um, he's third, Drake was second.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 29, 2024 10:48 PM |
I could have sworn he died a few weeks ago
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 29, 2024 10:49 PM |
John Ashton was the third
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 29, 2024 10:49 PM |
R10 - I’d settle for DJT.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 29, 2024 10:50 PM |
One of his many kids Jody “War Pig” Kristofferson
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 29, 2024 10:50 PM |
He’s actually not officially dead until there’s a DEAD TO ME thread, so I’m still reserving comment.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 29, 2024 10:51 PM |
Z level celebrities aren’t included in the usual dies in threes.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 29, 2024 10:52 PM |
RIP. My mom thought he was so hot she named my brother, Kris, after him.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 29, 2024 10:52 PM |
Never knew he was a Rhodes Scholar.
[quote]In 1958, Kristofferson was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, studying at Merton College. While at Oxford, he was awarded a Blue for boxing, played rugby for his college, and began writing songs.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 29, 2024 10:53 PM |
[quote] I still tear up at him and Sinead, with him supporting her- again, at a time when it was extremely unpopular.
Turns out that wasn't quite true. Sinead says he just came out to get her off, not to comfort her.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 29, 2024 10:53 PM |
I am shutting off Swans and going to watch Blade.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 29, 2024 10:53 PM |
Aww - loved his deepset Sami eyes, like Renee Zellweger's.
What a sweet Swede.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 29, 2024 10:53 PM |
I know the name so well but another I may have thought was already dead. Nice name I suppose.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 29, 2024 10:55 PM |
What an eloquent eulogy, r25
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 29, 2024 10:57 PM |
Didn’t he die in A Star is Born? Life imitating art
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 29, 2024 10:57 PM |
R4 you speak my language. Her fro made me laugh like a hyena for decades
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 29, 2024 10:59 PM |
I'm so mad about this!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 29, 2024 11:00 PM |
On the Cherilyn Sarkisian show, with his then wife Rita Coolidge
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 29, 2024 11:02 PM |
Yes r27, it’s scary the way that actors who die in movies later die in real life. It’s a chilling and unexplained phenomenon.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 29, 2024 11:02 PM |
He was 88!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 29, 2024 11:03 PM |
R4, you are a troll and a bigot.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 29, 2024 11:04 PM |
Did any psychics predict this? What about the Hollywood medium guy, couldn’t he ask his spirit friends who might be next, maybe he could save some lives or at least make a series where he gets a last interview with a star who is about to die.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 29, 2024 11:04 PM |
In 1960, Kristofferson graduated with a B.Phil. degree in English literature from Oxford, but his pushy family made him join the military. He finally landed a teaching job at West Point - but I guess the family guilt continued to gnaw at him and he quit teaching to fly helicopters into Vietnam.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 29, 2024 11:06 PM |
Willie Nelson is getting nervous.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 29, 2024 11:06 PM |
RIP. My mom loved him too. She's no longer with us, I'm glad I have you bitches to remember him with.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 29, 2024 11:07 PM |
Long life well lived if not perfectly by an amazing man. No one lives perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 29, 2024 11:07 PM |
I’m a little surprised to see someone use this as an occasion to run down the look of our Babs in the 70s. She might not have been an off-the-shelf Hollywood cupcake, but she was at her most beautiful in the 70s IMO.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 29, 2024 11:08 PM |
R30, I am losing it. I totally forgot about Rita Coolidge. They were a star couple way back when.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 29, 2024 11:08 PM |
Wait - he flew helicopters to oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. He did serve in the Army but not in 'nam.
He wrote some of his most memorable songs while working as a pilot, including "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which he said he wrote on an oil platform.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 29, 2024 11:09 PM |
How did he die?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 29, 2024 11:09 PM |
This made me laugh. Mace Montana, Pee Wee, and the hot dog tree.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 29, 2024 11:10 PM |
He treated the lovely and talented Rita Coolidge like shit. She was too good for him.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 29, 2024 11:10 PM |
His biggest contribution to mankind was cowriting One Day At A Time Sweet Jesus.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 29, 2024 11:15 PM |
R42 a misaligned chakra.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 29, 2024 11:15 PM |
R44 Oh shit, I forgot about that. He wasn't that great a musician or actor either, now that I think of it.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 29, 2024 11:16 PM |
I’m sorry
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 29, 2024 11:20 PM |
R45 I didn’t know he wrote the theme song for One Day At A Time! This is it!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 29, 2024 11:22 PM |
Didn't he date Janis Joplin?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 29, 2024 11:23 PM |
R6, I didn't even know James had died. He was so fucking hot back in the day!
- Not Barbra
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 29, 2024 11:23 PM |
He was drunk when he guest hosted SNL in its first season.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 29, 2024 11:25 PM |
So was he better known as a singer or actor? I had no idea that he was a country singer or that he was a Rhodes scholar.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 29, 2024 11:25 PM |
Only a few weeks ago, his spectacular ranch was up for sale, suggesting he'd been in ill health for a while.
Jane Fonda said her love scene with him was the only time she was turned on during a love scene.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 29, 2024 11:27 PM |
"Or I may simply be a single drop of rain...but I will remain."
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 29, 2024 11:27 PM |
I know his daughter that he made with Rita. She's a mess, he pretty much diowned her and wouldn't bail her out (she's a drug addict). Rita is penniless, and he doesn't do anything for her, either. It will be interesting to see if he left his kid anthing iin the will (she's one of eight).
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 29, 2024 11:35 PM |
I had hoped he would play Chris Christopherson in the 1993 revival of "Anna Christie," but Rip Torn did it instead,
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 29, 2024 11:35 PM |
Johnny Mathis best sleep with one eye open tonight, lest the Grim Reaper pays him a visit on his 89th Birthday (tomorrow - Sept 30).
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 29, 2024 11:42 PM |
"Sunday Morning Coming Down"
At least for this now happy recovering alcoholic/addict, I don't know of any other song that comes so close to accurately capturing that particular loneliness and isolation of a hangover Sunday.
I've experienced and felt everything Kristofferson describes in that song, including how smelling certain foods cooking can be so nostalgic.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 29, 2024 11:42 PM |
Forgot to thank r23 for posting SMCD.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 29, 2024 11:43 PM |
His biggest contribution to mankind was cowriting Me and Bobby McGee.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 29, 2024 11:45 PM |
He was a hot man. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 29, 2024 11:46 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 29, 2024 11:48 PM |
As much as Cher milked that Native American angle when it was fashionable to do so, there is only one in that clip at r30 - Rita Coolidge.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 29, 2024 11:51 PM |
Beautiful man. This is how I pictured America men when I grew up.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 29, 2024 11:52 PM |
So leathery and unattractive - there, I said it!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 29, 2024 11:52 PM |
R59/Della, that’s my favorite KK song.
Here he is with Johnny Cash, who is one of the few who successfully performed the song with conviction.
It’s a great song, encapsulating the sad realization many of us have made that the party’s over.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 29, 2024 11:53 PM |
Legend! RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 29, 2024 11:57 PM |
Rita Coolidge was gorgeous and fucked a who’s who of early seventies musicians.
She’s had a rough life, though.
Her warm, smooth voice made an interesting contrast to Kristofferson’s gravelly one.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 29, 2024 11:59 PM |
That was great, r67.
I'd never seen that before.
Thanks again.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 30, 2024 12:00 AM |
R70 She had great hair.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 30, 2024 12:08 AM |
F&F OP for improper and disrespectful thread caption.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 30, 2024 12:11 AM |
He had a hot ass but he couldn't live forever!
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 30, 2024 12:13 AM |
[quote]DEAD TO ME, OP!
Sorry about your Asperger's.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 30, 2024 12:13 AM |
Has Babs commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 30, 2024 12:14 AM |
[quote]Didn't he date Janis Joplin?
They seem to have hooked up shortly before she died. He was on coke, she was on heroin, and the details are fuzzy. He said he didn't hear her cover of "Bobby McGee" until a producer played it for him after she died; he listened to it several times, then said he could never listen to it again.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 30, 2024 12:20 AM |
My grandfather loved his music.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 30, 2024 12:21 AM |
or Jane Fonda R76 who like Babs also worked with Redford, James Caan, Yves Montand, Michael Sarrazin, George Segal, Jeff Bridges and Kris
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 30, 2024 12:22 AM |
I await Isabelle Huppert's statement.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 30, 2024 12:24 AM |
[Quote] um, he's third, Drake was second.
OMFG DRAKE IS DEAD???
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 30, 2024 12:27 AM |
I always get him mixed up with Jeff Bridges
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 30, 2024 12:31 AM |
He was a terrific singer-songwriter, the acting was something he dabbled in. Also a strong activist over the years, for many progressive causes. A Rhodes scholar to boot, a real American original.
It's a shame that the Kennedy Center didn't see fit to fit him in somehow, before he died, as it's been known he's had dementia for while now. It's hard for the older, white, country-folk guys to see the nod in recent years- I'm hopeful Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman will see some love (for the Byrds) before they both go, as well as Neil Young (Canadien, but hugely influential on American music).
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 30, 2024 12:32 AM |
This one really hurt.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 30, 2024 12:33 AM |
His fights with Barbra and Jon Peters on the set of ASIB were legendary.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 30, 2024 12:36 AM |
Beautiful man. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 30, 2024 12:36 AM |
[quote] I had hoped he would play Chris Christopherson in the 1993 revival of "Anna Christie," but Rip Torn did it instead,
For a second I got Rip Torn confused with Rip Taylor, and thought, "That must have been SOME production!"
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 30, 2024 12:56 AM |
[quote] He’s actually not officially dead until there’s a DEAD TO ME thread, so I’m still reserving comment.—S. Dey
Two unfunny things in one post.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 30, 2024 12:58 AM |
I’m glad he died instead of “passed away” on little wings sailing toward heaven!
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 30, 2024 1:00 AM |
"A Star is Born" might have worked better if Barbra had agreed to wear a Rita Coolidge style wig.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 30, 2024 1:00 AM |
I knew a drug addict who was very fond of him.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 30, 2024 1:01 AM |
He was wrongly diagnosed as having dementia. He was more recently confirmed to suffering from Lyme's disease instead.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 30, 2024 1:16 AM |
My favorite of his songs - Blame it on the Stones.
Rita deserves pop culture icon status for her cover of Boz Scaggs' We're All Alone
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 30, 2024 1:19 AM |
Gorgeous, Rhodes Scholar, helicopter pilot, college athlete, talented songwriter. What a life.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 30, 2024 1:20 AM |
ABC Thursday Night Special with Geraldo
70s schlock overload!
But the guys look good.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 30, 2024 1:27 AM |
Of all the amazing things he accomplished, I'll fondly remember when he told Toby Keith to go fuck himself.
“Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer.” He paused just long enough to get a full chest of air. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!” I could feel his body pulsing with anger next to me. “You don’t know what the hell you are talking about!”
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 30, 2024 1:29 AM |
R96 Thanks for reminding me about that. It was told in an article by Ethan Hawke who was there and wrote first hand about what he witnessed. Kristofferson later on said that he didn't recall that incident or saying that, but Kristofferson was already having short term memory by then, so I'm inclined to believe what Hawke wrote.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 30, 2024 1:37 AM |
R76
Barbra's official statement on her FB page:
[quote]The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something special. Barefoot and strumming his guitar, he seemed like the perfect choice for a script I was developing, which eventually became A Star Is Born. In the movie, Kris and I sang the song I’d written for the film’s main love theme, “Evergreen." For my latest concert in 2019 at London’s Hyde Park, I asked Kris to join me on-stage to sing our other A Star Is Born duet, “Lost Inside Of You.” He was as charming as ever, and the audience showered him with applause. It was a joy seeing him receive the recognition and love he so richly deserved. My thoughts go to Kris’ wife, Lisa who I know supported him in every way possible.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 30, 2024 1:38 AM |
"If it sounds country, that's what it is. It's a country song."
Side one of the compilation album Songs of Kristofferson was one of my favorite records in 1977. Since someone already posted "Sunday Morning Coming Down," I'll post this.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 30, 2024 1:46 AM |
First J.D. Souther. Now Kris Kristofferson. Who's on third?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 30, 2024 1:50 AM |
Robert Zimmerman?
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 30, 2024 1:55 AM |
I hope it's not Linda (unless she's decided it's time).
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 30, 2024 2:03 AM |
R61, you could say he "co-wrote" Me and Bobby McGee but he did the lion's share.
"Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster."
Also, I read that he was working in Nashville, as a janitor I think, after telling his mother he wanted just one year to see if he could make it as a songwriter. In the building, he happened to hear Bob Dylan singing - I forgot the song - but after he heard Dylan, it occurred to him that he could be a singer as well as songwriter. I mean if that guy could do it...
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 30, 2024 2:10 AM |
It was while he was working as a janitor at Columbia Studios that he met Johnny Cash.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 30, 2024 2:19 AM |
Wasn’t Elvis Babs first choice for A Star Is Born but colonel Parker fucked it up?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 30, 2024 2:24 AM |
I'm glad it was Kris and not Elvis. Have you seen any of Elvis' films?
I also loved Kris in "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" with Sarah Miles (1976). Based on a wonderful eerie story by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 30, 2024 2:27 AM |
R105 Indeed he was. The Colonel wanted Elvis to get top billing over Streisand, and Streisand wouldn't hear of it. The Colonel told Elvis to walk away from the offer if he's not getting top billing - and he did.
(For the record, Mick Jagger was also considered after Elvis - he was the first choice to star opposite Cher when the film was first presented to her in 1975, before Barbra got her hands on it. Photos were taken of Jagger and Streisand together - some floating on the internet these days - and they didn't photograph well. They didn't look like a 'couple' in any of them. Streisand dropped Jagger, and went with KK.)
R106 The movie and soundtrack album did very well with KK. But with Elvis ? It would've done 10 times better - with legions of Presley fans (who are not necessarily Barbra's) making sales soar at the box office and record stores.
Then Elvis dies eight months after release ? My God, can you imagine the resurgence in sales at the record store, and at the box office ? By August, 1977 ASIB was still hanging on at a small amount of second run theaters and drive-ins. The studio would have had to re-release the film to first-run theaters by the following weekend, and start all over again - to a phenomenal box office.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 30, 2024 2:43 AM |
I think Elvis has the potential to be a good actor and it would’ve been poignant at that time since his career was at a similar point as John Norman Maines was. Colonel Parker also screwed up what was to be his film debut a role in the rainmaker with Katharine Hepburn.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | September 30, 2024 2:43 AM |
*had the potential. Elvis was very upset about how Parker handed the star is born negotiations. Parker wanted $1 million, and a cut of the film. I think Streisand offered $500k and a smaller cut of the profits. Elvis really wanted to do it and had Parker not been involved he would’ve been agreeable to Streisands offer.
Evergreen would’ve made a nice duet between the two of them.
Kristofferson was deeply embarrassed by the playboy spread he did with Sarah miles to promote their film and claimed he was drunk when he did it.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 30, 2024 2:56 AM |
Damn, I didn't know about the Playboy spread! I'll have to go looking for it.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 30, 2024 3:09 AM |
[quote]Kristofferson was deeply embarrassed by the playboy spread he did with Sarah miles to promote their film and claimed he was drunk when he did it.
When wasn't he drunk? Or at least hung over?
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 30, 2024 3:23 AM |
He said he was "mostly sober" by 1976 because a doctor had warned him that his liver was "the size of a football."
by Anonymous | reply 112 | September 30, 2024 3:26 AM |
Interesting person
by Anonymous | reply 113 | September 30, 2024 3:33 AM |
I attended the same college as Kris, and used to see him at alumni weekends. He was a helluva nice guy, and really interesting to sit down and chat with. He wasn't hung up on his celebrity status in the slightest, and always preferred to be barefoot and in jeans -usually with his guitar in hand.
Rest in peace, dude.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | September 30, 2024 3:56 AM |
The photo spread with Sarah Miles for Sailor is allegedly what led Rita to file for divorce. There are a couple of photos where it looks as if he's eating her pussy. His face is right there.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | September 30, 2024 4:11 AM |
Drunk History about the time Kris stole a helicoptor and landed on Johnny Cash's lawn. He refused to leave until Johnny listened to his song.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 30, 2024 4:19 AM |
Johnny claimed Kris had a beer in his hand as he drove the helicoptor.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | September 30, 2024 4:24 AM |
First thing I thought of was reference to him in Taxi Driver.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | September 30, 2024 4:25 AM |
Just watched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Great movie, great job by him.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | September 30, 2024 5:50 AM |
Seems like a piece of shit, all things considered.
Oh well.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | September 30, 2024 6:04 AM |
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
by Anonymous | reply 122 | September 30, 2024 12:00 PM |
Verificatia of sizemeat?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | September 30, 2024 2:08 PM |
R120 and it was one of his first acting roles. The interactions between him and Tommy are priceless.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | September 30, 2024 3:03 PM |
I've heard his name my entire life, but I really could not name a single song or movie he's done.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | September 30, 2024 3:12 PM |
[quote]I've heard his name my entire life, but I really could not name a single song or movie he's done.
Prepare yourself for the eldergays hissing at you about A Star Is Born.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | September 30, 2024 3:14 PM |
It was a drag he was in so many B film/TV projects.
I guess 8 kids is a motivator for a paycheck ....even if you do have all the songwriting royalties.
the good thing is nobody saw or remembered them.
He got cast with Merchant/Ivory in 1998 / anyone see this?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | September 30, 2024 3:23 PM |
I never imagined him as a dad:
"Kristofferson had eight children from his three marriages: two from his first marriage to Fran Beer; one from his second marriage to Rita Coolidge and five from his marriage to his third wife, Lisa (née Meyers) Kristofferson."
by Anonymous | reply 128 | September 30, 2024 3:44 PM |
r128 Gross
by Anonymous | reply 129 | September 30, 2024 4:37 PM |
Willie Nelson has 8 kids, as well. The youngest is 34. Willie's 91. So, he was 57 when he had the youngest.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | September 30, 2024 4:48 PM |
r130 Gross
by Anonymous | reply 132 | September 30, 2024 6:01 PM |
Kris appeared in the craptastic video for Barbra's craptastic "Left In the Dark Again," an overwrought ballad from Jim Steinman. So bad I've always loved it.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 30, 2024 6:22 PM |
Willie just endorsed Kamala the other day. Love him.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | September 30, 2024 8:27 PM |
I have to be honest.....I touched myself thinking of him. What a man.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 30, 2024 8:52 PM |
You can barely hear him on his duet with Streisand on Evergreen. She sings right over him or her voices amped over him.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | October 1, 2024 11:04 AM |
Doesn't he have several minutes of singing by himself on 'Evergreen'?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | October 1, 2024 2:31 PM |
* I mean a few seconds - not several minutes
by Anonymous | reply 139 | October 1, 2024 2:43 PM |
R107, Mick Jagger was NEVER considered for A Star is Born. That was simply a bullshit name drop.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | October 1, 2024 2:58 PM |
And for this I'll rewatch his movie with Cheryl Ladd, "Millennium"
by Anonymous | reply 142 | October 1, 2024 3:04 PM |
He had nothing to do with his adult daughter from his marriage to Rita. She is a drug addict and mentally ill woman living in Ashville, N.C. and portraying herself as a psychic and healer. Flat broke, had her kids taken away from her, etc. Was not welcome at his Hawaii mansion that he shared with his third wife.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | October 1, 2024 3:21 PM |
That's sad r143. Rita lives these days in Tallahassee, her original hometown. She's not broke or homeless as some have said, she lives down the road from a friend of mine there.
This is one of KK's best songs, interpreted by the great Waylon Jennings. I've posted the live version here because I prefer it, apologies for the older grainy video. There aren't many truly American icons like Waylon, Cash and KK left anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | October 1, 2024 3:55 PM |
He treated Joplin like shit. Good riddance.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | October 1, 2024 4:27 PM |
^ Tell us more, r145.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | October 1, 2024 5:02 PM |
Poor Janis. She said on Dick Cavett's show (or somewhere) that they called her "Pig Face" in high school. She was going back to her reunion when she was on Dick's show - and said, "So I'm going back" with an "I'll show you" sort of smile.
She did ok for a plain girl - though Kris called her "pretty" in one of his interviews after she died. She also had Leonard Cohen at the Chelsea Hotel and he said in the song, about Janis and himself, "And clenching your fist for the ones like us, who are oppressed by the figures of beaut; you fixed yourself, you said, "Well, never mind, we are ugly but we have the music."
Didn't she have a thing with Jim Morrison? (speaking of figures of beauty).
What a dame. I knew a woman who was in Janis' class in high school, and despite all her fame, this woman said, "She could have done so well if she'd just behaved." (this was a Fundy - Janis grew up in Texas - Port Arthur - and Janis' family attended a fundie church too.) Such is the strangeness of the South.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | October 1, 2024 5:04 PM |
Actually, he didn't, liar R145, you dumb cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | October 2, 2024 3:43 AM |
I bet those mean girls were seething with jealousy when they heard Janis fucked Kris Kristofferson.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | October 3, 2024 2:05 AM |
Why can't more men be like Kris? Intelligent, talented, principled, hot as fuck?
It pains me that I'll never love a man like him.
He must have been fantastic in bed. Did any of his previous lovers kiss and tell? I only skimmed this post, so apologies if it's been discussed ad nauseum.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | October 4, 2024 6:44 AM |
R1 and r2, They're ALL that old now.
80+: Fonda. Valli. Dylan. Ringo. Sir Paul. Rod. Tom Jones. Page. Daltrey. Diana. Dionne. Petula. Etc.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | October 4, 2024 7:23 AM |
R82 I have a lot of admiration for Jeff Bridges as well. They both share the same vibe.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | October 4, 2024 9:59 AM |
How many fucking guitars does Vince Gill own?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | October 11, 2024 3:12 PM |