Random Picture Entry: Carly Simon and Kris Kristofferson

Until a few months ago I always got Kris Kristofferson confused with Christopher Cross (the dude who sings "Ride Like the Wind," which is actually kind of epic and makes me really happy whenever it comes up on my iPod shuffle). Then I saw Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, aka the Best Movie Ever, and discovered that Kris Kristofferson's character is sort of my dream man: this quiet, no-bullshit, gruff-yet-totally-sweet, guitar-playing cowboy-loner with a heart of gold and the fetchingest beard you ever did see. Sadly there's no clips featuring Kris on YouTube (though there is this great little compilation of all the brilliantly daffy scenes with Jodie Foster). So I'll guess you'll just have to Netflix right now, and then get halfway through and go, "Hey, why are we all of a sudden hanging out in Mel's Diner with Flo and Vera?" It'll be both mind-bottling and magical.

The point of all this is that now I'm 100% in love with the 1974 Kris Kristofferson, which means I got all giddy upon spotting this shot of him and his ex-sweetheart Carly Simon in the April issue of Vanity Fair (the one with Tina "Hottie McHotterson" Fey on the cover). Unlike Kris, Carly's been in my life a real long time - like, probably since the womb. To live in my family is to love Carly Simon: We're so into her, my little sister is even named after her. (I, on the other hand, got my middle name from an Elvis Costello song, which is equally awesome.) So I completely ate up the VF piece, an excerpt from Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation (which I'm psyched to read). Turns out Kris was a bit of a cad, which is unfortunate, although it's kind of cool to think of him as one of the "many vain men" for whom Carly's said to have written "You're So Vain." Ill-fated though they may be, they look great together here, so much so that I'm now even more smitten with each than ever before.

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