{"id":1257,"date":"2025-12-30T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:09:37","slug":"a-country-star-and-actor-passed-away-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"A Country Star And Actor Passed Away At 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"30\">1. A Life on His Own Terms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\">Kris Kristofferson \u201cleft this world the way he lived in it: on his own terms,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\">\u201d dying at home in Maui on September 28, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\">He avoided fame even as it followed him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"426\"><strong data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"238\">2. Before the Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"426\">Before stardom, he was a \u201cRhodes Scholar\u201d and an \u201cArmy helicopter pilot,\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"426\">leaving a conventional path to pursue something uncertain in Nashville,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"426\">trading expectations for creative risk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"702\"><strong data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"458\">3. Changing American Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"702\">He wrote classics like \u201cMe and Bobby McGee\u201d and \u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Comin\u2019 Down,\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"702\">helping spark the outlaw country movement. Alongside Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"702\">and Waylon Jennings, he became a Highwayman in a \u201cdefiant brotherhood of misfits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"728\">4. Film and Farewell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Kristofferson also shined on screen, winning a Golden Globe for <em data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"811\">A Star Is Born<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">His 2021 retirement felt like \u201ca curtain call\u201d; his death now feels like<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"947\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cthe last page of a book America still isn\u2019t ready to close.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. A Life on His Own Terms Kris Kristofferson \u201cleft this world the way he lived in it: on his own terms, \u201d dying at home in Maui on September 28, surrounded by family. He avoided fame even as it followed him. 2. 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