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The film is an updated version of the 1976 movie starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.
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Kris Kristofferson is twice as high as Outkast, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac.
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When the two women win big on bingo they decide to head for Las Vegas, where they make an unlikely friend in a cowboy played by Kris Kristofferson.
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She signed Kris Kristofferson to BMI for a cool million dollars just as he approached the height of his songwriting productivity and Hollywood fame a risk that paid off.
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We get some twenty-five songs in all, plus testimony from Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, the benignly indiscreet Guy Clark, and Emmylou Harris (who gives every sign of being immortal).
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But I can name a dozen Fleetwood Mac songs off the top of my head, and I'm hard pressed to come up with many Kris Kristofferson or Patti Griffin songs.
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Artists like James Taylor, Lyle Lovett and -- (applause) -- and Kris Kristofferson. (Applause.) These are among the greats that helped carry country music from regional radio to national popularity.
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At his home in Woodstock, New York, he regularly hosted the Midnight Ramble, weekly concerts that attracted sell-out crowds and all-star support from the likes of Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen.
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It tells the story of Streisand's up and coming female singer who falls in love with an established rock star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career on the rise whilst his fades.
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Like Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle before him, Todd Snider often writes songs with a slightly boozy country-rock swagger, paced by a steady intellectual metronome that's a tick or two ahead of most of his peers.
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The Lonestar state has always boasted a rich musical talent, but it took the coming of Mr Nelson and his fellow cosmic cowboys, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, to catapult the sleepy state capital Austin into the spotlight.
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