Kris Kristofferson is DEAD TO ME!

Original thread right below yours, mein Fuhrer.

Dropping like flies.

He fucked Maggie Smith 50 years ago, and see what happened?!

What was up with his on-again off-again eyebrows anyway?

So all of Babs' love interests are dying in record time. Caan, O'Neal, Kris K. Nick Nolte, you in danger, girl.

Munch!

R1, that thread had the incorrect title. I ordered it cancelled.

I saw the pic and thought it was Nick Nolte for a sec.

B-O-R-I-N-G

R4, I'm still here!

Rug and all…Bob

Nick Nolte is alive and well. He's supposedly working on the latest Jennifer Lawrence film with Sissy Spacek.

Thank you, OP, for employing the Datalounge honorific in your caption

She was unreachable down at Stoney End.

She's got nothing to be Guilty of.

Put On Your Sunday Clothes

Kris was such a Superman!

His bare fanny in “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace into the Sea” was an early HBO delight.

R17 the photos that accompanied an article about that movie in Penthouse? Hustler? I forget now - was a big factor in his divorce from Rita Coolidge

The photos WERE. oh dear on me!

He refused to live in a world without MAGGIE SMITH.

[quote]r18 the photos that accompanied an article about that movie in Penthouse? Hustler? I forget now - was a big factor in his divorce from Rita Coolidge

It was a layout in Playboy promoting this film… with boring Brit Sarah Miles.

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[italic] July, 1976

To westernize ‘The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea,’ a novel by the late Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, producer Martin Poll and adapter-director Lewis John Carlino changed the Yokohama setting to a seacoast village in Devon. They then teamed England's provocative Sarah Miles with Kris Kristofferson (now co-starring with Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born) as ill-starred widow and able-bodied American seaman whose headlong sexual collision is no secret to a gang of dangerously precocious British schoolboys. Anglicizing does little to inhibit Mishima's heady blend of romance, eroticism and horror in a movie that takes liberties--occasionally startling ones, even in the present permissive era--to flesh out the unique, decadent spirit of an author, too little known in the West, who was once hailed by The New York Times as "a master of gorgeous and perverse surprises."

In story terms, ‘The Sailor Who Fell from Grace’ combines elements of ‘Last Tango in Paris’ with the intellectual rigors of ‘Lord of the Flies.’ Kristofferson's sailor destroys "the perfect order" of existence by forsaking his anchorless life at sea for a sensuous, landed lady--a crime that the woman's son and a band of wayward chums judge punishable by death. The climax of this strangely tangled tale reflects the credo, as well as the kinkiness, of Mishima--a Japanese nationalist who committed hara-kiri in 1970, at the age of 45, to dramatize his political views. Though a self-absorbed bisexual, family man, fanatical bodybuilder (he liked posing nude) and actor in gangster movies, Mishima was also a prolific literary genius (three times nominated for a Nobel Prize for his novels, plays and short stories) who dreaded old age and called hara-kiri "the ultimate masturbation." The first English-language film based on his work catches his undertones of cool violence, played against some of the hottest love scenes in nonporn cinema history, and may prove an exhilarating trip for movie audiences only now discovering that the world of Mishima reaches to far-out aesthetic shores.

Thanks R21. If I recall correctly it was the cunnilingus photo that pissed Rita off. They did call him "the silver tongued devil" and apparently not for his singing.

Christ, why do I remember such bullshit

But David Selby still walks among us.

I knew him slightly, having sung back-up for him. He was a very sweet man -kind and intelligent. Very sexy, too, in an unassuming way.

RIP, Kris.

[quote] Thanks [R21]. If I recall correctly it was the cunnilingus photo that pissed Rita off. They did call him "the silver tongued devil" and apparently not for his singing.

OMG! I remember that picture. I was so young I didn't understand why his face was in her crotch.

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is a masterpiece.

He had the WORST song of the 70s, “Why Me?”

Bumping this thread so it can compete with the first.

R11, Nick Nolte has never been alive and well.