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Kris Kristofferson is DEAD TO ME!

His star was born, but it did not last.

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by Anonymousreply 54October 9, 2024 12:38 AM

Original thread right below yours, mein Fuhrer.

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by Anonymousreply 1September 29, 2024 10:56 PM

Dropping like flies.

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

by Anonymousreply 2September 29, 2024 10:58 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 3September 29, 2024 10:59 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 4September 29, 2024 11:02 PM

Munch!

by Anonymousreply 5September 29, 2024 11:03 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 6September 29, 2024 11:15 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 7September 29, 2024 11:28 PM

B-O-R-I-N-G

by Anonymousreply 8September 29, 2024 11:34 PM

R4, I'm still here!

by Anonymousreply 9September 29, 2024 11:35 PM

Rug and all…Bob

by Anonymousreply 10September 29, 2024 11:38 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 11September 29, 2024 11:42 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 12September 30, 2024 12:12 AM

She was unreachable down at Stoney End.

by Anonymousreply 13September 30, 2024 12:17 AM

She's got nothing to be Guilty of.

by Anonymousreply 14September 30, 2024 12:19 AM

Put On Your Sunday Clothes

by Anonymousreply 15September 30, 2024 12:26 AM

Kris was such a Superman!

by Anonymousreply 16September 30, 2024 12:29 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 17September 30, 2024 12:55 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 18September 30, 2024 1:39 AM

The photos WERE. oh dear on me!

by Anonymousreply 19September 30, 2024 1:41 AM

He refused to live in a world without MAGGIE SMITH.

by Anonymousreply 20September 30, 2024 2:23 AM

[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.

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by Anonymousreply 21September 30, 2024 2:33 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 22September 30, 2024 2:37 AM

But David Selby still walks among us.

by Anonymousreply 23September 30, 2024 2:44 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 24September 30, 2024 3:28 AM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 25September 30, 2024 5:27 AM

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is a masterpiece.

by Anonymousreply 26September 30, 2024 5:49 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 27September 30, 2024 5:52 AM

Bumping this thread so it can compete with the first.

by Anonymousreply 28September 30, 2024 6:03 AM

R11, Nick Nolte has never been alive and well.

by Anonymousreply 29September 30, 2024 12:06 PM

Kris was one these guys who looked so much better with a beard.

by Anonymousreply 30October 1, 2024 1:58 AM

LOL R29. I was going to put the word "well" in parens with a question mark, but I just let it go because the thread is about Kris

by Anonymousreply 31October 1, 2024 2:34 AM

[quote]R30 Kris was one these guys who looked so much better with a beard.

How dare you. He was utterly delectable in all states!

It’s attitudes like yours that killed him.

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by Anonymousreply 32October 1, 2024 4:10 AM

He said he was sober when he was filming "Convoy," but the director, Sam Peckinpah, was coked out of his mind and the producers threatened to fire him. Kristofferson told them that if they fired Peckinpah, he would quit, so they said they'd let Peckinpah finish the movie. Kristofferson said he was feeling pretty satisfied until Peckinpah tracked him down and told him, "Goddamn you, ya stupid sonofabitch, I was almost outta here and you dropped me back in this shit!' After the shoot, the producers did take the film away from Peckinpah to re-edit it, and it ended up being a big hit.

by Anonymousreply 33October 1, 2024 4:45 AM

My mother embarrassed my teenage self by hanging around his tour bus at the Del Mar fair one year.

by Anonymousreply 34October 1, 2024 4:56 AM

^^ maybe he is your father (??)

by Anonymousreply 35October 1, 2024 5:42 AM

Sad. It's hard to believe he was 88; seems like just yesterday that he and Rita Coolidge were so beautiful together. So much musical talent to go around, his songs were covered by everyone. Then came his filmwork.

I'd all but forgotten about "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace ...;" time for a rewatch. The novel is somewhere around here. I've not seen Gaga's "A Star Is Born," there was never a need to, having savored the Babs/Kris masterful remake/premake tens of times. Ahh, rock/dram musicals ... perhaps I'll dust off "The Rose," too. Sigh.

Thank you, and Rest In Peace, Kris Kristofferson.

by Anonymousreply 36October 1, 2024 5:53 AM

I fell in love with him in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

by Anonymousreply 37October 1, 2024 1:15 PM

The TV series was much better - and, frankly, so was my singing.

by Anonymousreply 38October 1, 2024 3:16 PM

I have a guilty pleasure watching him in 1989's Millennium with Cheryl Ladd. Terrible film, but fun.

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by Anonymousreply 39October 1, 2024 7:30 PM

My mom really liked him and always point out that he was a Rhodes scholar, which I was always impressed with since he looked like a hobo to my 8 year old gayling eyes...

by Anonymousreply 40October 1, 2024 7:47 PM

My mom always said he looks like someone who bathes once a month.

by Anonymousreply 41October 1, 2024 8:12 PM

I'm surprised he was only 5'8" -- he looked lanky. Maybe he wore lifts on camera.

by Anonymousreply 42October 2, 2024 1:44 AM

Sam Shepherd sort of became the new Kris Kristofferson in movies at some point (or tried to), didn’t he?

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by Anonymousreply 43October 2, 2024 4:59 AM

^^Instead of Sam Shepherd I would say Sam Elliott.

by Anonymousreply 44October 3, 2024 2:27 AM

Mmmm. Yes. Though all three were probably up for the same roles, for a while.

by Anonymousreply 45October 3, 2024 2:39 AM

He seemed to have led a very fun life. So, a good run.

(Until sometime truly terrible is revealed years from now)

by Anonymousreply 46October 3, 2024 2:45 AM

Kris’ face fully in Sarah Miles’ lap.

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by Anonymousreply 47October 3, 2024 5:10 PM

I just read Ted Bundy was married the day before he was sentenced to death… and the crazy broad had a little girl with him.

This could have made a great “Ripped from the Headlines” episode, with the mother and child sailing from America to flee the press.

I see Susan Strasberg and Tori Spelling in these roles.

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by Anonymousreply 48October 7, 2024 3:36 AM

For R30

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by Anonymousreply 49October 7, 2024 6:11 AM

Cher, Rita, and Kris. Cher's voice drowns out the others, esp. Rita. When Rita sings alone (Help Me Make It through the Night), she sounds good.

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by Anonymousreply 50October 7, 2024 6:17 AM

I just realized my r48 was intended for the Love Boat thread. Sorry.

I don’t think Kristofferson ever had to stoop to do that awful show… did he?

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by Anonymousreply 51October 7, 2024 6:22 AM

That white evening gown worn by Fonda @ r49 is perfection. So beautifully draped and fitted.

That movie’s costume designer was Ann Roth.

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by Anonymousreply 52October 7, 2024 7:21 AM

^that dress makes her look like Gilda

by Anonymousreply 53October 7, 2024 1:09 PM

Rita Coolidge really had a lovely true contralto voice at r50, nicer than Cher who was also a contralto.

by Anonymousreply 54October 9, 2024 12:38 AM
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