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Peggy Caserta, Who Wrote a Tell-All About Janis Joplin, Dies at 84 Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she ...
In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of ...
Amy Berg’s “Janis: Little Girl Blue” suggests one reason: Although Joplin’s brief life was eventful, its contradictions would stymie a tidy biopic.
Peggy Caserta, whose funky Haight-Ashbury clothing boutique was a magnet for young bohemians and musicians, and who exploited her relationship with Janis Joplin in a much-panned 1973 memoir that ...
It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her - but for true fans she remains the best female rock ...
Janis: Little Girl Blue, airing Tuesday night on PBS’ American Masters, does a good job of depicting why Janis Joplin was so appealing a figure in 1960s rock. It also demonstrates the problems ...
The singer's legacy still endures almost 50 years after her death, as told in 'Janis: Her Life and Music,' written by Holly George-Warren.
It was revealed this week that Michelle Williams is in talks to play singer Janis Joplin in a biopic entitled Janis, to be directed by Martha Marcy May Marlene helmer Sean Durkin — but the Oscar ...
The inside story on 'Janis: Little Girl Blue' — a bold new doc on the life, times, music and lovers of rock legend Janis Joplin.
American Masters – Janis: Little Girl Blue premieres nationwide Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 8/7c on PBS (check local schedule) as part of the 30th anniversary season of THIRTEEN’s American ...