# Kris Kristofferson has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 29, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260 "2024-09-29T22:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/33 "2024-09-30T15:34:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nobody but me seems to remember him in Amerikkka. Pretty crappy miniseries, it wasn’t really his fault. I was going to say I started a thread about it a “little while ago”, but it was actually in 2016! > [@Amerika (1987 miniseries)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amerika-1987-miniseries/763260): > > I just finished watching the miniseries “Amerika” (about a Soviet-dominated U.S.) which premiered in 1987. I remember the hype at the time (and the spoof “Amerida” on SNL where Canada took over the U.S.), but I never saw it. It wasn’t very good. The exact mechanism how the Soviets took over America was deliberately left vague (Wikipedia says the novelisation explains that America was crippled by a huge EMP), but it didn’t seem very plausible. There was a lot of choppy jumping between the var… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260)._