{"id":108798,"date":"2024-09-30T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108798"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:11:08","slug":"kris-kristofferson-country-music-superstar-and-hollywood-a-lister-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108798","title":{"rendered":"Kris Kristofferson: Country music superstar and Hollywood A-lister dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kris-kristofferson-retires-313554b2e5d8a5be66fae061a819bc39\">Kristofferson<\/a><\/span> died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an email. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his family. No cause was given.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in the late 1960s, the Brownsville, Texas native wrote such country and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll standards as \u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down,\u201d \u201cHelp Me Make it Through the Night,\u201d \u201cFor the Good Times\u201d and \u201cMe and Bobby McGee.\u201d Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning \u201cFor the Good Times\u201d or Janis Joplin belting out \u201cMe and Bobby McGee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He starred opposite <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ny-state-wire-ellen-burstyn-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-956734980eacaa201f440af076eed2a7\">Ellen Burstyn<\/a><\/span> in director Martin Scorsese\u2019s 1974 film \u201cAlice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore,\u201d starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976 \u201cA Star Is Born,\u201d and acted alongside Wesley Snipes in Marvel\u2019s \u201cBlade\u201d in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Kristofferson, who could recite William Blake from memory, wove intricate folk music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into popular country music. With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a new breed of country songwriters along with such peers as Willie Nelson, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-news-ap-top-news-john-prine-obituaries-music-772a23ead9edf026cde1bbab60124772\">John Prine<\/a><\/span> and Tom T. Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,\u201d Nelson said at a 2009 BMI award ceremony for Kristofferson. \u201cEverything he writes is a standard and we\u2019re all just going to have to live with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/willie-nelson-90-neil-young-snoop-dogg-0ceb4d12f0362a910eb920cbf53d781b\">Kristofferson retired<\/a><\/span> from performing and recording in 2021, making only occasional guest appearances on stage, including a performance with Cash\u2019s daughter Rosanne at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/willie-nelson-90-neil-young-snoop-dogg-0ceb4d12f0362a910eb920cbf53d781b\">Nelson\u2019s 90th birthday celebration at the Hollywood Bowl<\/a><\/span> in Los Angeles in 2023. The two sang \u201cLoving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I\u2019ll Ever Do Again),\u201d a song that was a hit for Kristofferson and a longtime live staple for Nelson, another great interpreter of his work. <\/p>\n<p>Nelson and Kristofferson would join forces with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings to create the country supergroup \u201cThe Highwaymen\u201d starting in the mid-1980s. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-right=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-c40000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-small-4x6\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/64df0f0\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1400x2100+104+0\/resize\/228x342!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/aebec8a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1400x2100+104+0\/resize\/456x684!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ced8c67\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1400x2100+104+0\/resize\/228x342!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/6712dc8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1400x2100+104+0\/resize\/456x684!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 2x\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/a7f80bd\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/599x898!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/73df0f7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 2x\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/fe1bc94\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/3bc840d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/fe1bc94\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/3bc840d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42 2x\" width=\"599\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/fe1bc94\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1401x2100+104+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F47%2F71%2Fc7233d7dedd9509cbcd5f62b19e2%2F807ef0a550884be495dcd7f9815eac42\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>Kris Kristofferson in August 1973. (AP Photo, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kristofferson was a Golden Gloves boxer, rugby star and football player in college; received a master\u2019s degree in English from Merton College at the University of Oxford in England; and flew helicopters as a captain in the U.S. Army but turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, to pursue songwriting in Nashville. Hoping to break into the industry, he worked as a part-time janitor at Columbia Records\u2019 Music Row studio in 1966 when Dylan recorded tracks for the seminal \u201cBlonde on Blonde\u201d double album.<\/p>\n<p>At times, the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson landed a helicopter on Cash\u2019s lawn to give him a tape of \u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down\u201d with a beer in one hand. Over the years in interviews, Kristofferson said with all respect to Cash, while he did land a helicopter at Cash\u2019s house, the Man in Black wasn\u2019t even home at the time, the demo tape was a song that no one ever actually cut and he certainly couldn\u2019t fly a helicopter holding a beer.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2006 interview with The Associated Press, he said he might not have had a career without Cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShaking his hand when I was still in the Army backstage at the Grand Ole Opry was the moment I\u2019d decided I\u2019d come back,\u201d Kristofferson said. \u201cIt was electric. He kind of took me under his wing before he cut any of my songs. He cut my first record that was record of the year. He put me on stage the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of his most recorded songs, \u201cMe and Bobby McGee,\u201d was written based on a recommendation from Monument Records founder Fred Foster. Foster had a song title in his head called \u201cMe and Bobby McKee,\u201d named after a female secretary in his building. Kristofferson said in an interview in the magazine, \u201cPerforming Songwriter,\u201d that he was inspired to write the lyrics about a man and woman on the road together after watching the Frederico Fellini film, \u201cLa Strada.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-230000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/684b0ee\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2399x1660+0+0\/resize\/800x554!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F44%2Fe4%2Fa459af8e5687ff9f961a5ee9fbfe%2Fd778117767044de4878337e3c896bd1f 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appear at a preview of the film, \u201cA Star is Born,\u201d in Dec. 23, 1976, in New York. (AP Photo\/Suzanne Vlamis, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joplin, who had a close relationship with Kristofferson, changed the lyrics to make Bobby McGee a man and cut her version just days before she died in 1970 from a drug overdose. The recording became a posthumous No. 1 hit for Joplin.<\/p>\n<p>Hits that Kristofferson recorded include \u201cWatch Closely Now,\u201d \u201cDesperados Waiting for a Train,\u201d \u201cA Song I\u2019d Like to Sing\u201d and \u201cJesus Was a Capricorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1973, he married fellow songwriter Rita Coolidge and together they had a successful duet career that earned them two Grammy awards. They divorced in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The formation of the Highwaymen, with Nelson, Cash and Jennings, was another pivotal point in his career as a performer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I was different from the other guys in that I came in it as a fan of all of them,\u201d Kristofferson told the AP in 2005. \u201cI had a respect for them when I was still in the Army. When I went to Nashville they were like major heroes of mine because they were people who took the music seriously. To be not only recorded by them but to be friends with them and to work side by side was just a little unreal. It was like seeing your face on Mount Rushmore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group put out just three albums between 1985 and 1995. Jennings died in 2002 and Cash died a year later. Kristofferson said in 2005 that there was some talk about reforming the group with other artists, such as George Jones or Hank Williams Jr., but Kristofferson said it wouldn\u2019t have been the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look back now \u2014 I know I hear Willie say it was the best time of his life,\u201d Kristofferson said in 2005. \u201cFor me, I wish I was more aware how short of a time it would be. It was several years, but it was still like the blink of an eye. I wish I would have cherished each moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the four, only Nelson is now alive. <\/p>\n<p>Kristofferson\u2019s sharp-tongued political lyrics sometimes hurt his popularity, especially in the late 1980s. His 1989 album, \u201cThird World Warrior\u201d was focused on Central America and what United States policy had wrought there, but critics and fans weren\u2019t excited about the overtly political songs.<\/p>\n<p>He said during a 1995 interview with the AP he remembered a woman complaining about one of the songs that began with killing babies in the name of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I said, \u2018Well, what made you mad \u2014 the fact that I was saying it or the fact that we\u2019re doing it? To me, they were getting mad at me \u2019cause I was telling them what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the son of an Air Force General, he enlisted in the Army in the 1960s because it was expected of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in ROTC in college, and it was just taken for granted in my family that I\u2019d do my service,\u201d he said in a 2006 AP interview. \u201cFrom my background and the generation I came up in, honor and serving your country were just taken for granted. So, later, when you come to question some of the things being done in your name, it was particularly painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood may have saved his music career. He still got exposure through his film and television appearances even when he couldn\u2019t afford to tour with a full band.<\/p>\n<p>Kristofferson\u2019s first role was in Dennis Hopper\u2019s \u201cThe Last Movie,\u201d in 1971. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-ff0000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/c0a2574\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1983x1322+0+0\/resize\/800x533!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fe2%2Fcf%2F6036a96f74f2ab075fd97617267e%2F74d056868b994efcaa0e24acb1842f18 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1995. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He had a fondness for Westerns, and would use his gravelly voice to play attractive, stoic leading men. He was Burstyn\u2019s ruggedly handsome love interest in \u201cAlice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore\u201d and a tragic rock star in a rocky relationship with Streisand in \u201cA Star Is Born,\u201d a role echoed by Bradley Cooper in the 2018 remake.<\/p>\n<p>He was the young title outlaw in director Sam Peckinpah\u2019s 1973 \u201cPat Garrett and Billy the Kid,\u201d a truck driver for the same director in 1978\u2019s \u201cConvoy,\u201d and a corrupt sheriff in director John Sayles\u2019 1996, \u201cLone Star.\u201d He also starred in one of Hollywood biggest financial flops, \u201cHeaven\u2019s Gate,\u201d a 1980 Western that ran tens of millions of dollars over budget.<\/p>\n<p>And in a rare appearance in a superhero movie, he played the mentor of Snipes\u2019 vampire hunter in \u201cBlade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described in a 2006 AP interview how he got his first acting gigs when he performed in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just happened that my first professional gig was at the Troubadour in L.A. opening for Linda Rondstadt,\u201d Kristofferson said. \u201cRobert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times music critic) wrote a fantastic review and the concert was held over for a week,\u201d Kristofferson said. \u201cThere were a bunch of movie people coming in there, and I started getting film offers with no experience. Of course, I had no experience performing either.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Hall reported from Nashville. 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