« Reply #566 on: September 29, 2024, 08:25:55 pm »
Kris Kristofferson. I know his name but not much else. I see he dated Bawabaw Streisand the multimillionaire Marxist.
Check out his biography above. It seems that he came from a Conservative family that wanted him to pursue a military career in the Army. He became an officer and a helicopter pilot and served a single tour in Germany before being offered the professorship of literature at West Point. Something in him changed, and it being the 1960s, he lurched left, quit the Army, and broke with his family. Spent sometime on the oil rigs in Louisiana as a helicopter pilot and went to Nashville to try and make it as a songwriter and singer, doing odd jobs to get by. He was, more or less, given his big break by June and Johnny Cash, and became one of the best songwriters in country music. He did indeed have very high intelligence and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford before being commissioned into the Army. His rebellion against his family and Conservative upbringing though has never been fully explained...he never liked to talk about it.
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