re: Crazy Things You Didn't Know About Actors

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Kris Kristofferson

In addition to being a famous country singer, and a Golden Globe Award winning actor (also in the Blade series!), he also:

-Played college football, rugby, and boxing
-Earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he got his masters degree
-Was a chopper pilot in Vietnam and was an Army Ranger

Makes me feel pretty shitty about myself.

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His family disowned him because of this decision [to leave the military] and they never reconciled with him

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He also worked as a commercial helicopter pilot at that time for a south Louisiana firm called Petroleum Helicopters International (PHI), based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kristofferson recalled of his days as a pilot, "That was about the last three years before I started performing, before people started cutting my songs ... I would work a week down here [in south Louisiana] for PHI, sitting on an oil platform and flying helicopters. Then I'd go back to Nashville at the end of the week and spend a week up there trying to pitch the songs, then come back down and write songs for another week ... I can remember 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' I wrote sitting on top of an oil platform. I wrote 'Bobby McGee' down here, and a lot of them [in south Louisiana]."

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