The Guild of Music Supervisors has set its board of directors and leadership lineup. Lindsay Wolfington (To All the Boys franchise) is the new president of the Guild, with Heather Guibert (The Americans, VEEP), taking on the role of VP.
Serving on the board of directors alongside Wolfington and Guibert consists of Joel C. High, Jonathan Leahy, Howard Paar, Todd Porter, Aminé Ramer, Jennifer Smith, Robin Urdang, Andrea von Foerster, and Madonna Wade-Reed. Leahy and Urdang are newcomers to the board.
Next on the calendar for the organization is their 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. The ceremony will take place on March 3 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. The awards were established to honor the craft of music supervision across film, television, video games, documentaries, advertising, trailers, and the role of music supervisors in original songs for film and TV.
Singer-Songwriter and Actor Kris Kristofferson Dies At 88
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died.
Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an email. He was 88.
McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his family. No cause was given.
Starting in the late 1960s, the Brownsville, Texas native wrote such country and rock 'n' roll standards as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "Help Me Make it Through the Night," "For the Good Times" and "Me and Bobby McGee." Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning "For the Good Times" or Janis Joplin belting out "Me and Bobby McGee."
He starred opposite Ellen Burstyn in director Martin Scorsese's 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," starred opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1976 "A Star Is Born," and acted alongside Wesley Snipes in Marvel's "Blade" in 1998.
Kristofferson, who could recite William Blake from memory, wove intricate folk music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into popular country music. With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a new breed of country songwriters along with such peers as Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Hall.
"There's no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson," Nelson said at a 2009 BMI award ceremony for Kristofferson. "Everything he writes is a standard and we're all just going to have to live with that."
Kristofferson retired from performing and recording in 2021, making only occasional guest appearances on stage, including a performance... Read More