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RECEIVED Tue., Feb. 28, 2006
Dear Editor,
One thing disappointed me about Andy Langer's interview with Kris Kristofferson [“Lone Star,” Music, Feb. 24]: Even though the story reproduced your previous Kris cover from an '81 issue, Andy didn't even ask Kris about that 1981 interviewer, Mark McKinnon.
McKinnon has, on more than one occasion over the years, rightly noted his Kris connection to burnish his old-school "Austin-centric" bona fides.
That's fine, but now that Mark has become famous and wealthy by producing the TV commercials that elected George W. Bush in 2000 and – gulp – re-elected him in 2004, I have to think Kris would have had something interesting to say about that had only he been asked.
Perhaps someone with a real nose for news should have tagged along.
One thing disappointed me about Andy Langer's interview with Kris Kristofferson [“Lone Star,” Music, Feb. 24]: Even though the story reproduced your previous Kris cover from an '81 issue, Andy didn't even ask Kris about that 1981 interviewer, Mark McKinnon.
McKinnon has, on more than one occasion over the years, rightly noted his Kris connection to burnish his old-school "Austin-centric" bona fides.
That's fine, but now that Mark has become famous and wealthy by producing the TV commercials that elected George W. Bush in 2000 and – gulp – re-elected him in 2004, I have to think Kris would have had something interesting to say about that had only he been asked.
Perhaps someone with a real nose for news should have tagged along.
Jackson Williams
[Louis Black responds: I spent several days traveling with Kris Kristofferson last year, and he made it very clear that this was a topic about which he had nothing to say.]
